A 6-Legged Robot Stares at the Sky to Navigate Like a Desert Ant
A 6-Legged Robot Stares at the Sky to Navigate Like a Desert Ant
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 14, 20196m 39s
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Show Notes
In case you’ve been envying the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis lately, don’t. Skittering around the Sahara Desert, the insect endures temperatures so brutal, it can sometimes only manage foraging runs of 15 minutes before it burns to death. Making matters worse, the heat obliterates the pheromone chemical trails that ants typically lay for each other to navigate. Get lost out here, and you’re literally cooked. Accordingly, desert ants have evolved superpowers.
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