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Insect Robotics Group

Insect Robotics Group

Building robots to understand insect behaviour

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Category: Research

The overall aim of our research is to understand the behavioural capabilities of insects and to model these using robots. Currently there are a number of specific topics we are investigating:

Cricket phonotaxis

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).

5th February 2014

Learning in Drosophila

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.

5th February 2014

Ant navigation

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.

5th February 2014

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