Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ants' tiny brains can still coordinate to build complex structures using their own bodies. Apart from their nasty stings, army ant ...

Social insects, which don’t have very large nervous systems, are capable of remarkably sophisticated behavior, such as the direction-giving dance by bees or the lifesaving rafts formed by fire ants.

Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...