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Collective Clog Control: What Ants Can Teach Us About Traffic Flow (7 of 9)

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Collective Clog Control: What Ants Can Teach Us About Traffic Flow (7 of 9)

image: Robots built in the laboratory of Professor Daniel Goldman at Georgia Tech dig 3D printed spheres that are designed to simulate the moist soil in which ants dig. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 17, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jeffrey Aguilar at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, "Collective clog control: Optimizing traffic flow in confined biological and robophysical excavation." view more 

Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech


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