Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another. The team built the robot to mimic the behaviour of rock ants that use one-to-one tuition, in which an ant that has ...

Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic parameters. Individual ants are ...

Theo Volz, 15, a freshman at Rock Bridge High School and a member of the Army Ants robotics team, makes adjustments on the Army Ants’ robot called “Mantis” on Wednesday while preparing for the FIRST ...

To navigate networks of paths, robotic ants follow trails of light instead of pheromones, and they maintain their individual orientations. Data on how these robots navigate via swarm behavior, along ...