A German company has just developed “robot ants” that could possibly transform the future of manual labor, showing extremely high efficiency in factories. Their invention, called BionicANT – which stands for Bionic Autonomous Networking Technologies, is manufactured through 3D printing. The robot is about the size of an adult hand and works imitating the cooperative behavior of the real insect.
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