Digital bee brain pilots drone
The part of a bee's brain which allows it to see has been recreated by scientists in a computer simulation and connected to a drone.
The simulation, which is currently a simplification of a real bee brain, allows researchers to perform the same experiments that have been done on real bees.
The research is part of a wider project, known as the Green Brain Project, which aims to recreate a complete European honey bee (Apis mellifera) brain on a computer.
"Bees and all other insects are miracles of engineering which we are nowhere near equalling," said Prof James Marshall, "if we could even recreate a fraction of their abilities in a robot system then we would have made a tremendous advance," he added.
麻豆官网首页入口 Click's Stephen Beckett reports.
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