Harvard University Ant Lab

Harvard University’s Ant Lab is a research group that studies how ants organize their societies and behave collectively. Using ants as a model, researchers explore principles of communication, decision-making, and complex systems, which can offer insights into collective behavior in nature and human applications like robotics and algorithms. The lab also focuses on understanding how ants solve problems and adapt to their environments, providing a window into decentralized coordination and social organization. Overall, it combines biology, computer science, and mathematics to better understand how simple rules lead to complex, efficient group behaviors.