Scientists are increasingly studying how robot swarms can collectively achieve goals, drawing inspiration from ants that work together to bridge gaps or form rafts to survive floods. The ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Festo, a German automation company, has invented bionic ants as part of its Bionic Learning Network. These robot ants run independently, yet work together to ...

A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ants has already been developed and tested with “excellent results”, according to a team from the University of Edinburgh. The research could result ...

Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock) Researchers at the University of ...

European researchers in the I-SWARM project are hard at work developing small, autonomous robots that can work together and communicate to perform different functions. They successfully built two ...

Mimicking ants' hairy jaws could make robotic systems much more effective at picking objects up and moving them around. A prototype "hairy robotic gripper" has been developed by the University of ...

Key to the gripper’s success is replication of an ant’s hairy jaws, which improves the capability of current robotic handling systems with minimal increase in complexity or cost. According to its ...

A recycled Falcon rocket on Sunday blasted into the pre-dawn sky from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. After hoisting the Dragon capsule, the first-stage booster landed upright on SpaceX's newest ...

Scientists have developed a ‘hairy robotic gripper’ inspired by ant jaws in a research project backed by Ocado and Amazon. The “versatile gripper” improves the capability of current robotic handling ...

Professor Charlotte Deane, executive chairwoman at EPSRC said: “This innovative robotic gripper, inspired by the remarkable strength and efficiency of ants, is a great example of cutting-edge ...

A prototype ‘hairy gripper’ based on the mouths of ants has already been developed and tested. The robotic gripper is inspired by the strength and efficiency of the mouths of ants (Alamy/PA ...