Fire ants work together to build complex structures out of their own bodies. Research that reveals the simple rules behind this behaviour could be used to inform robotics.
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Ant architecture: The simple rules of ant construction
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Shamini Bundell
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07899-5
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