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'Safety nets' built by army ants could help engineers design self-healing robot swarms

 Teamwork isn t just a human characteristic: Colonies of army ants will form living scaffolding to protect members from falling. The insects are blind and have no designated leader but, according to new research, they re able to use simple behavioral rules to develop these safety structures without the need for direct communication. Once a scaffold was built, worker ants were almost 100 percent protected from falling off steep inclines.  Understanding how they design such complex structures could help engineers development self-healing materials and swarm robotics, researchers said. Scroll down for video Army ants in Central American rainforests will build scaffolds out of their body to help them traverse steep terrain. The safety net maintains its structure even across virtually vertical slopes 

Study Shows How People Can Learn Systemic Stability from Ants

Apr 20, 2021 05:00 AM EDT An international team of scientists led by biologist Professor Iain Couzin, co-director of the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz and director of the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and Matthew Lutz, a postdoctoral researcher in Couzin s lab, have discovered a new form of collective behavior in ants. Their research demonstrates how ants use scaffolds, self-organized architectural constructs, to ensure traffic flow on sloped surfaces. Individual sensing and decision-making lead to scaffold forming, which enables the colony as a whole to respond dynamically to unexpected environmental challenges.