Robotic communication with ants

Ants resort to majority concession to reach democratic consensus in the presence of a persistent minority

(2022) Harikrishnan Rajendran et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Leadership – not followership – determines performance in ant teams

(2021) Thomas O. Richardson et al.   Communications Biology

Route learning during tandem running in the rock ant Temnothorax albipennis

(2020) Takao Sasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: from theoretical models to empirical evidence

(2018) Andrew M. Berdahl et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A review on animal–robot interaction: from bio-hybrid organisms to mixed societies

(2018) Donato Romano et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Ants incommunicado: collective decision-making over new nest sites by ants with reduced communication

(2015) Jonathan P. Stuttard et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

How ants use quorum sensing to estimate the average quality of a fluctuating resource

(2015) Nigel R. Franks et al.   Scientific Reports

Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis

(2014) Norasmah Basari et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

How collective comparisons emerge without individual comparisons of the options

(2014) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using robots to understand social behaviour

(2012) Sara Mitri et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Interactive robots in experimental biology

(2011) Jens Krause et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Responsibility Assignment in Redundant Systems

(2010) Olivier White et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Improving Decision Speed, Accuracy and Group Cohesion through Early Information Gathering in House-Hunting Ants

(2010) Nathalie Stroeymeyt et al.   PLoS One