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"textContent": "Roboticists at Harvard and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras – very smart folks indeed – somehow entirely missed the great name “antdroids” when building the insectoid drones they call RAnts (robotic ants, which do not, in fact, rant about anything – not even against a tyrannical robotic ant queen).\n\nContinue Reading\n\n**Category:** Robotics, Engineering\n\n**Tags:** Harvard, Biomimicry, Ants, Robotic construction",
"title": "Just call these tiny autonomous construction robots “antdroids”"
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