Tag Archives: Ants
Yes, but so could you (and YouTube trolls me again).
As many of you already know, I considered going to grad school for biology, specifically to study insects. Well, not insects, but spiders, and as we all know spiders are not insects.
However, within that discipline you learn a lot about insects. Outside of that discipline you learn a little about insects, and one of the things you hear over and over again is how ants can carry 2,000 times – or more – their own body weight. Now, we have robots – called MicroTUGs – that can do that as well as described in this story over on the BBC (or BEEB, if you’re a Brit). The article even states that they were designed, in part, by borrowing from ants.
