I'm not sure it's recent news, because there is a public release from as back as 2005, but I just came across this video of a monkey eating using a robotic arm directly controlled by his brain. Researchers are from the Pittsburgh University.
Really impressive, although probably a bit tough for the monkey.
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Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The amazing intelligence of crows
In this 10min TED talk, Joshua Klein talks about crows and how they are incredibly good learners.
They seem to have a powerful memory, use vision effectively, have problem solving skills, use tools and even learn from examples of other crows. I guess AGI is more than achieved at "crow-level Artificial Intelligence"!!
They seem to have a powerful memory, use vision effectively, have problem solving skills, use tools and even learn from examples of other crows. I guess AGI is more than achieved at "crow-level Artificial Intelligence"!!
How Ant Colonies Get Things Done
Here you have a nice and very informative Google Tech Talk by Dr. Deborah Gordon on how ant colonies work without any central control:
It seems that ants make most of their decisions just based on the frequency they encounter other ants (which have a specific smell according to their role in the colony).
It seems that ants make most of their decisions just based on the frequency they encounter other ants (which have a specific smell according to their role in the colony).
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