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By attaching a small transponder to bees, researchers were able to track movements and feeding patterns. Andrew Martin

Fast food: how bees navigate to nectar, without the bumbling

By Ajay Narendra

How do insects, given their poor visual resolution and small brains, cope with the huge challenge of finding food at more than one location and returning home immediately afterwards, day after day? Mathieu…
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What ants can teach robots

By Ken Cheng

Can an ant’s strategy for moving around be useful for building robots with autonomous navigation? Working with experts in the field of artificial intelligence, we have just begun to explore this possibility…

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Making a bee-line for energy savings

Queen Mary, University of London

Bumblebees use complex problem-solving skills to minimise the energy they use when flying to collect food. For the bumblebee…

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