Top 10 Technologies Inspired by Nature

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 16 February 2012, 21:30 IST   |    5 Comments
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8. Ant-inspired autonomous navigation: Autonomous navigation till now has not been attainable completely by robots. Either one has to have pre-installed maps, or communicate with the GPS system. However, engineers are studying ants to find a solution to this problem, since Cataglyphis ants in the Sahara desert use a visual piloting, and systematic search in combination with path integration. They hope to build robots that will mimic this behavior.