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, ...

Scientists built small ant inspired robots that work together using light signals. These robots can build or dig by following simple rules.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Ants do not need a foreman to raise a city. Working with little more than local cues, they excavate tunnels, pile up soil, ...

Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of flowers on Tuesday in a demonstration of how robots might eventually be used to ...

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 ...