The essence of our methodology is to use robots as models of biological systems.  We usually refer to this as “Biorobotics” (although the terminology in this field is not fixed). An important feature is that our principal focus is on understanding the biology, using robotics as a tool, rather than on trying to improve robotics […]

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Female crickets are able to locate mates by walking or flying towards the songs produced by males. We are modelling the neural circuits underlying this behaviour and testing the models on robots (including an outdoor robot).

Adult fruit-flies can learn to avoid odours that are paired with shock, and larval fruit-flies will learn to avoid or approach odours that are paired with attractive or unattractive food. We are modelling the brain circuits underlying these changes in behaviour.

Desert ants forage individually (without chemical trails) and can reliably return to their nest or a food source over long distances in cluttered environments. We are studying these behaviours in the ants and building computational models.

Barbara Webb Professor of Biorobotics Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour School of Informatics University of Edinburgh Room: IF 1.40     Phone: +44 (0)131 651 3453 Email: bwebb@inf.ed.ac.uk Address: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, U.K. Home Page

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