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Ants
Researchers in France are calling their six-legged creation the “AntBot.” This 9 inch robot doesn’t just skitter around like a desert ant, though — it also borrows their unique navigational skills.
Ants can do pretty amazing things when they work together, such as building elaborate nests and even creating bridges from their bodies. One team of scientists wanted to know how these social insects figure out how to take on their various roles within a colony.
Ants, through their Borg-like powers, are capable of performing complex cooperative feats that make solitary insects look useless. In an extraordinary example of this collective behaviour, researchers have shown how fire ants, when confronted by a barrier, swarm together to create towers with their bodies, allowing the lucky few at…
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