The physical intelligence in collectives: how robots and ants escape from prison without a plan.
Ants are simple creatures, but a colony can do incredibly complex things, like intricate construction, foraging, and defense.

Harvard researchers recently took inspiration from ants in order to create a team that is relatively simple and can perform complex tasks with only a few parameters.

The research was published by eLife.

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