The ants give models for the futuristic small-size robots that can make complex underground structures.

The ants are making large and complex underground cities. And those cities can use as a model for making the underground complexes. Ants are perfect models for small-size robot workers which can use for making large and complex structures. Unless the in the large-size mining robots the small-size robots are acting as a team, and the destroyed participants of the team are easy to replace. 

Those bugs are perfect team workers. And ants are giving ínteresting ideas for the creators of the AI-based independently operating drone swarms. And the newest idea is that the small-size robots can use for making large and complex underground bases. 

The miniature robots can produce by using robot factories in their operational area. 

So those miniature robot ants are the tools of the next-generation mining systems. The robot ants that are maybe the size of the microchips can have resonance, microwaves, or laser-based systems, which they can use for making the corridors in the underground areas. The purpose of those systems is to break the rock. The idea of those mechanical ants is that they are acting as a team. 

They might be connected with the robot factory, where they are taking the raw materials for the new robot ants. Those systems might be made mainly by using silicon, which allows it to use solar power. If that robot factory is allowing to make the new members to the group. That means those robots can make chains for delivering electricity for the robots. Those are working underground. The energy can deliver by using laser rays. 

The robots can also use lasers and spectroscopes to find the raw material for the new robots that are produced in the robot factory. Those robot factories can be the size of the containers or they can be modular systems that are transported to the place. And the factory has the systems like microwave and laser-based melting systems and centrifuges that are separated the raw materials for the microchips and robots that are making them. The system can use 3D printing technology as much as possible. 

The "artificial cell" is the AI-controlled robot factory that can order its sub-robots for finding the raw materials for new robots. But the system can also create new factories for making more and more robots. 

The group of robots is acting like ants. They are forming entirety. Where all participants act like one individual. That group is AI-controlled and every individual is sharing the data. with other members of the group. And if there is a problem that robot calls assistance. 

If some part of the group has problems the AI orders them to make things like aiming the lasers to one point or call other robot ants to the place. Or they can start to use things like resonance for making the process faster. Together those robots have the power to cut hard materials like granite. 

But those modular systems can also connect their lasers for the entirety. They can make a chain. And then the lasers are forming the one big laser

The thing that this system requires is energy. Of course, it can be nuclear powered, but the factory can use solar power geothermal energy, or some other green energy source. For benefiting geothermal energy the factory requires the laser drill that is making the deep hole to the ground. 

And then the power element is put in that hole. In that kind of case, the factory controls the robot ants, and it can also command them to make a new factory if a larger group of robot ants is needed. And as I wrote the robots can use laser spectrometers for searching suitable raw materials for the system. 

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