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What makes ant colonies robust?

Simplifying Complexity

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Building Robustness Into a System

In the ancolony, there is this stochasticity built into the system and also a certain amount of diversity. So in that sense, one can think of building in robustness into a system just in the sense of solution finding. This is what complex systems do - they never stand still like a bridge. They are always moving and because of this movement being disordered, a disturbance can be resolved as a new solution will be found.

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