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Nov 4, 2021 · The previous studies used robots to infiltrate real groups of animals and provoke a response. But there’s another way to use robots to understand animal behavior: Program a swarm of robots to act according to the rules you think real animals are following, and see if the result mimics how the animals act.
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The famous “waggle dance” of honeybees — in which a worker returning to the hive signals the location of a food source by running in specific patterns near the entrance to the hive while vibrating its wings and body — has been known for more than 60 years. But researchers still don’t know exactly how the bee’s hive mates decode its message. “What a...
When a falcon strikes, how does a flock of pigeons respond? The classic theory — often called the “selfish herd” hypothesis — assumes that every pigeon merely tries to get into the middle of the flock, so that the predator takes some other unfortunate bird. But that idea isn’t easy to test. Every falcon strike is different: Some start a little high...
Which fish in a school are most likely to lead the group? Most studies have suggested that the larger fish tend to have the most influence over where the school swims — but there’s a problem: Big fish are also older and more experienced, and they can act differently than their smaller schoolmates. Which of these differences has the strongest effect...
The previous studies used robots to infiltrate real groups of animals and provoke a response. But there’s another way to use robots to understand animal behavior: Program a swarm of robots to act according to the rules you think real animals are following, and see if the result mimics how the animals act. That’s the approach followed by Justin Werf...
Biomimetic robots don’t just reveal animal behavior. They may soon be used to manipulate it in useful ways. Mosquitofish, native to the southern US, have become one of the top 100 invasive species worldwide. Giovanni Polverino, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Western Australia, decided to try an unusual form of bio-robotic control. Polv...
Jul 10, 2022 · Editorial on the Research TopicRobotics to Understand Animal Behaivor. For centuries, designers and engineers have turned to biological systems to seek inspiration for constructing functional, flexible, and robust robots (Bar-Cohen, 2005), which has matured into a significant branch of robotics. Recently, biologists and interdisciplinary teams ...
For centuries, designers and engineers have turned to biological systems to seek inspiration for constructing functional, flexible, and efficient robots. Over the years biologically inspired robotics has matured into a significant branch of robotics. Recently, biologists and interdisciplinary teams are using robots as viable testbeds to help explore and evaluate hypotheses in animal behaviour ...
Jul 24, 2018 · There’s a lot to be learned from letting robots loose in a group of behaving animals. For one thing, to understand animal behavior—be it directional decision-making in fish, communication in ...
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Bio-inspired robots that can fly like birds and creep like cockroaches are helping researchers to understand more about how animals move and behave. Hayley Bennett. Published: April 17, 2022 at 3:00 pm. From cockroaches to peregrine falcons, researchers are getting a closer look at the lives of animals by sending robot creatures undercover.
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Sep 1, 2012 · The history of introducing physical models into animal behavior studies has progressed into a recent surge of animatronics, or the use of kinetic models. We produced robotic “faux” frogs to better understand the signaling and mate selection behavior of a tropical frog in a multimodal (acoustic + visual signals) context.
