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Moth-inspired robot swarms could soon sniff out harmful substances

24 Aug 2020 Katherine Skipper
Male moth
Super sniffer: a male pine processionary moth. (Courtesy: Alvesgaspar/CC BY-SA 4.0)
Inspired by the behaviour of moths, researchers have developed a novel collective search algorithm f

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