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3StartlingAnimal BrainsThat Can Fly an F-22 or Control Robots
By: Deborah Brigham
Can robots be controlled by Animal Brains or even a Human Brain? That is what scientists are suc- cessfully attempting to do with these 3 animals.
While many Computer Scientists are trying to crack the "Neural Network Code", some scientists are resorting to biology to answer the Artificial Intelligence problem. That problem being, "What is the most efficient way to train a robot how to maneuver and make good deci- sions".
AI may one day mean Animal Instinct rather than Artificial Intelligence
raT BraIn
Surreal right? One exam- ple at The University of Florida, scientists took 25,000 rat brain cells connected to an array of 60 electrodes...and had it fly an F-22. Of course a rat has no idea that its flying at first, and it does not even know what it is doing. However over the course of 15 minutes of training it was able to accomplish a level, straight, and stable flight.
Did I mention that this was all in an F-22 simula- tor? Of course they wouldn't do this with a real F-22.
Over the course of 15 minutes of training it was able to accomplish a level, straight, and stable flight. After further Training the "rat brains" were able to fly in other virtual weather conditions such as "hurricane force winds".
Worm BraIn
In a more recent example the Open Worm Project, an open source project, was also able to recreate the behavior of the common roundworm using a robot. Essentially each of the neurons that the worm normally had were recreated using sensors that would mimic
the neurons instead. This enabled the robot to autonomously maneuver around obstacles. Granted in this example scientsts did not actually take the physical "brain" of a Roundworm, but rather they recreated it.
Bee BraIn
Using the same philoso- phy as the Roundworm scientists at the Green Brain Project that can "visually" navi- gate using a Bees Brain. Since a Bees brain is much more complex with 1 million connected neu- rons compared to the round worms 302 neu- rons only a small portion of the bees brain was recreated. Scientists believe that they can one day artificially pollinate crops using more elabo- rate Bee brains.
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