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Researchers have developed a low-cost tracking technology called CATER, which uses computer vision and AI to study desert ants’ navigation. The technology has revealed the ants’ remarkable learning speed and provided insights for the next generation of bioinspired robots. The tool documents an ant’s journey from when it first leaves its nest until it finds a food site and returns to its colony. The data has revealed that the ants learn quickly and their outward routes evolve over time, indicating different strategies for exploration versus exploitation. The technology is already being adopted by numerous international research groups and is ideally suited to citizen science projects.