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Dec 21, 2022

The physical intelligence of collectives: How ants and robots pull off a prison escape without a plan or a planner

Posted by in categories: law enforcement, robotics/AI

Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense.

Recently, Harvard researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform using only a few basic parameters.

The research was published in eLife.

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