British scientists are studying the way bees adapt to their surroundings to develop software which could guide a new generation of sophisticated drones.
In a presentation to the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Seattle on Sunday, Professor James Marshall of Sheffield University demonstrated how he and his team are reverse engineering bee brains to create the drone prototype.
“Bees are really consummate visual navigators,” he said. “They can navigate a complex 3D environment with minimal learning very robustly, using only a million neurons in a cubic millimetre of brain . . . For us they're at a sweet spot for brain size and intelligence.”
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