When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous for their ability to collectively build massive, intricate, ...

An illustration of how the collective, decentralized behavior of ants has inspired experiments with cooperative robots that can complete tasks without central control. Harvard researchers built a ...

Simple ant-like robots collectively build or demolish structures without central control, just by tuning two parameters - showing how adaptive group behavior emerges. (Nanowerk News) When it comes to ...