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Watching ants and playing with robots is biologist Simon Garnier’s Cool Job as he studies how people and animals swarm in large groups. Garnier discovers these animals work together to accomplish amazing things they can’t do alone.
Episode filmed live at the 2019 World Science Festival in New York City. The full Cool Jobs program from that year can be viewed online.
Watching ants and playing with robots is biologist Simon Garnier’s Cool Job as he studies how people and animals swarm in large groups. Garnier discovers these animals work together to accomplish amazing things they can’t do alone.
Episode filmed live at the 2019 World Science Festival in New York City. The full Cool Jobs program from that year can be viewed online.
Simon Garnier is an associate professor in the Federated Department of Biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers-Newark. He is the head of the Swarm Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab that studies the mechanisms underlying collective behaviors and swarm intelligence in natural and artificial systems.
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