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Your home is a place to hang your hat, for you anyway. For termites, your home is a place to meet their very large family, each and every day, for lunch. They don’t even bother to bring their own food ...

Termites can build huge, elaborate mounds that rise up from the ground like insect skyscrapers; scientists have now created little robots that act like termites to build a made-to-order structure.

Imagine a team of workers that can tirelessly build and rebuild complicated structures even under daunting and dangerous conditions. They already exist – they’re called termites. Now, inspired by ...

CNN Labs explores the latest innovations around the world to showcase cutting-edge designs and groundbreaking research in science and technology. Human construction projects are generally centrally ...

Ask 100 robotics scientists why they’re inspired to create modern-day automatons and you may get 100 different answers. For a team at Harvard University, it’s termites. “Not the ones around here that ...

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