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Bees and fish and robots, and how to push the boundaries of biological research| old_uid | 9822 |
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| title | Bees and fish and robots, and how to push the boundaries of biological research |
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| start_date | 2015/09/24 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Honeybees show great navigational and cognitive abilities. They quickly learn the structure of their environment, use elaborate strategies for different navigational tasks and communicate resource locations symbolically through the bee dance. Guppies, albeit seemingly having a shorter skill list, exhibit nonetheless interesting collective behavior. Over the years, we have employed robots to investigate these systems. Robots are either used for the « ultimate » model testing, or as a tool to enable previously impossible manipulations and observations. We have built a dancing bee robot that mimics the dance and is the first robot that stimulates follower bees to decode the content of the artificial dance. We have constructed a flying robot that serves as a platform for electrophysiological investigations of brain regions that are likely involved in mastering navigational tasks. Thirdly, we developed a robotic fish that acts as a natural member of the shoal. This way we can manipulate the swarm on an interactive level. In the talk, I will present the robots and the most exciting experiments we conducted with them. I will also discuss the challenges of the approach and elaborate on how we might use it to build smarter robots. |
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| responsibles | Fenouil |
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