‘Green Brain’ project to create an autonomous flying robot with a honey bee brain - News releases - News Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are embarking on an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer models of a honey bee brain in a bid to advance our understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how animals think. Honey Bee The team will build models of the systems in the brain that govern a honey bee's vision and sense of smell. If successful, this project will meet one of the major challenges of modern science: building a robot brain that can perform complex tasks as well as the brain of an animal. It is anticipated that the artificial brain could eventually be used in applications such as search and rescue missions, or even mechanical pollination of crops. Dr James Marshall, leading the £1 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded project in Sheffield, said: "The development of an artificial brain is one of the greatest challenges in Artificial Intelligence. Additional information Faculty of Engineering Contact
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Autonomous flying robot has a honey bee brain UK scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex have kicked off an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer model of a honey bee brain. According to Dr. James Marshall, the model will be used to advance the current (limited) understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how animals think. The team will build models of the systems in the brain that govern a honey bee's vision and sense of smell. If successful, this project will meet one of the major challenges of modern science: building a robot brain that can perform complex tasks as well as the brain of an animal. Tasks the robot will be expected to perform? "The development of an artificial brain is one of the greatest challenges in Artificial Intelligence," said Marshall. "Using Nvidia's massively parallel GPU accelerators for brain models is an important goal of the project as they allow us to build faster models than ever before.
One Hungry Mama Honeybee artificial brain might help unravel animal cognition A group of researchers at Universities of Sheffield and Sussex have embarked in a highly ambitious project, in a quest to accurately develop computer models of a honey bee brain. Findings during actual development and testing itself might help answer some of the most puzzling questions in neuroscience, in a bid to understand how animal cognition works. The scientists intend on creating an artificial intelligence system for the honey bee, such that a flying autonomous robo-honey bee might sense the world around it, in terms of vision and smell, and act according to its external stimuli, just like the real insect would behave instead of just completing a series of pre-programmed tasks. Tasks the robot will be expected to perform, for example, will include finding the source of particular odours or gases in the same way that a bee can identify particular flowers. “The development of an artificial brain is one of the greatest challenges in Artificial Intelligence. source: www.shef.ac.uk.
Jessica Stanley. Bee brains help to make robots smarter 2 October 2012Last updated at 06:45 ET Studying how bees sense the world could help robots become more autonomous Honey bee brains could soon be helping robots act more independently. The way that bees smell and see is being studied in a £1m project to produce a simulation of the insect's sensory systems. The simulated bee brain will then be used by a flying robot to help it make decisions about how to navigate safely. Robots that emerge from the research project could help in search and rescue missions or work on farms mechanically pollinating crops. The research, which involves scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex, aims to create models of the neural systems in a bee's brain that helps it make sense of what it sees and smells. The working model of the sensory systems will then be used in a robot to see if it can move around the world with the sophistication of a honey bee. Computer cluster