Houston, we have ants: Mimicking how ants adjust to microgravity in space could lead to better robots, scientist says
Monday, January 20, 2014 - 06:30
in Astronomy & Space
Professor Deborah Gordon recently sent hundreds of ants to the orbiting International Space Station. By studying how the ants adjust their behavior to cope with near-zero gravity conditions, scientists could improve the algorithms autonomous robots follow to search disaster scenes for survivors.