Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, ...

Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a large organization with no leaders and no meetings. It sounds impossible. Yet ...

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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. Individual ants are ...