In this issue: The Collective Ant Brain by Margie Patlak; Nature as a Blueprint for Resilient and Sustainable Engineering Systems by Hadear Hassan, Abheek Chatterjee, and Astrid Layton; Can Manufactured Ecosystems fully replace ecosystem services? by Shoshanah Jacobs et al.; a portfolio: Art-thinking by Daniel Mira; Robotany: a new way to move by Tom McKeag.