How are studies of insect navigation useful to roboticists?

Summary form only given. Insects have large numbers of neurons, enough for complex behaviour that cannot be fully understood but few enough for there to be little flexibility. It may therefore be possible to derive from their behaviour useful navigation techniques. The paper presents 2 cases; the use by bees of optic flow to measure the distances that they fly, and the coordination by desert ants of path integration and the use of fixed routes when in familiar territory