New Robot Ants Work Like Real Insects To Build And Dismantle On Their Own

The lowly ant: able to lift many times their own weight and able to build complex structures, using signaling based on chemical signaling with pheromones. “RAnts” (Robot Ants) communicate through light fields known as photormones and build and deconstruct complex structures. Maybe Elon Musk will use RAnt swarms to build space colonies on Mars. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing behavior of social