Ants do not need a foreman to raise a city. Working with little more than local cues, they excavate tunnels, pile up soil, ...
If a foraging ant encounters a gap too wide for it to cross on its own, the insect will sometimes signal other ants to form a bridge of their linked bodies. Such behaviour has now been copied in a ...
Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing ...
In a demonstration that less can be more, EPFL scientists are working on simple robots that behave and cooperate like ants. The 10-g (0.35-oz) Tribots are simple, tetherless, reconfigurable ...
When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants.These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous for their ability to ...
A team of Swiss researchers with bugs on the brain has created an army of simple robotic "ants" capable of some impressive feats. The takeaway from these 10 gram bots, which are inexpensive to make ...