Bionic Ant | Nature-Design Triennial 

Ants communicate and organize challenging, shared tasks while behaving independently. This behavior is an impressive natural model for the coordination of goals. Festo’s BionicANTs, robots designed to make autonomous decisions in conjunction with each other, explore a technological version of ant behavior that could be implemented on a larger scale in manufacturing, especially robotic production sectors.
On view in "Nature-Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" through January 2020.
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All courtesy of Festo AG & Co. KG
Sebastian Schrof (German, born 1989), Elias Knubben (German, born 1975), Jochen Spohrer (German, born 1990), and Mart Moerdijk (Dutch, born 1988), Festo AG & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany, founded 1925)