Robot ant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jyBiECoS3Q
I would say real ants are currently waaay ahead of robot ant controllers.
On the other hand - like EY says - there's a whole bunch of things that we can do which ants can't. So it is not trivial to compare.
And robot ant controllers are not examples of our most powerful AI creations to date.
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Aaronson - Percontations: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Mechanics
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