iAnts are tiny robots made from iPods.

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iAnts are tiny robots made from iPods, placed on wheels, and programmed to behave the way real ants do. Paper quick response codes scattered around the floor represent food. When one of the ants rolls over a code, it scans the code, returns to the nest, and communicates with others to tell them of the find. "Ants are unique ecologically," says Melanie Moses, associate professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico...