PBS (Feb. 13) -- In the journal Science Robotics, a team of French scientists unveiled new technology that just might bolster our future travels: AntBot, an insect-inspired walking robot that models its navigational capabilities on those of ants.“This is remarkable,” says Viktor Gruev, an engineer who studies bio-inspired systems at Illinois who was not involved in the study. “This paper shows an excellent way of taking desert ants’ different senses ... and integrating them into a very elegant solution to recreate navigational capabilities.”