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 Shubham Ghosh Roy 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 complex tasks using only a few basic parameters.