Key words: SOLS, ants, navigation, mathematics, robots.
| Topic |
Time |
| Intro - |
00:00 |
| What's the name of your ant? |
01:25 |
| How hot a temperature can this ant live? |
01:53 |
| Why they have long legs. |
02:39 |
| How do most ants navigate? [pheramones] |
03:31 |
| How does Cataglyphis navigate? |
03:57 |
| Path integration |
04:45 |
| A built in compass for direction and odometer for distance. |
05:08 |
| What is their built in compass? |
05:18 |
| Polarized light and ant contact lenses. |
05:42 |
| How do you put contact lenses on an ant? |
07:07 |
| How do your ants tell distance (odometer)? |
08:19 |
| Ants on stilts. |
09:06 |
| Math in sceince. |
11:31 |
| Trips paths to and from their nest - ant geometry. |
12:07 |
| Ant Geometry. |
14:00 |
| Mini brains, mega tasks, and smart solutions. |
14:30 |
| Maps and navigation and landmarks. |
14:43 |
| Integration - compass, odometer, landmarks. What is the most
important? |
15:57 |
| Ant photographic memory. |
18:04 |
| Saharabot the desert ant robot. |
20:24 |
| Cataglyphis ant has 360 degree vision. eyes in
the back of their head? |
21:53 |
| When did you know when you first knew you wanted to be a scientist? |
25:00 |
| What would you be if you were not a scientist/biologist. |
26:54 |
| What advice would you have for someone wanting to become a
biologist? |
27:43 |
| What's it like doing research in the Sahara Desert? |
29:55 |
| Sign-off |
31:07 |
