There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, ...

A team of scientists set out to determine how many ants live on Earth at any given time. The answer is astounding, to say the ...

By observing ants moving objects, researchers have developed an end effector that could make better robot grippers.

New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots grip. Researchers at the University of ...

Professor Barbara Webb of the University of Edinburgh, who has led the research, says, "Inspired by the strength and delicacy with which ants move things, our prototype is just the first step. Having ...

In tests with 30 different household objects, the addition of 'hairs' increased the prototype gripper's grasp success rate ...