Sunny talks to Prof Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who uses physical robots to validate neural mechanisms in crickets, ants, and bees. She talks about her work inspired by the philosophy that biological cognition can only be truly understood by building complete sensory-motor loops that work in the real world. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph.
Articles and Papers
- Robotic experiments in cricket phonotaxis
- An anatomically constrained model for path integration in the bee brain
- AntGrip – Boosting parallel plate gripper performance inspired by the internal hairs of ant mandibles
- Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance
From the discussion
- BOOK> How the body shapes the way we think: a new view of intelligence
- OpenAGI: When LLM meets domain experts
- An aVLSI cricket ear model
- Micropower gradient flow acoustic localizer
- Neural mechanisms in insect navigation: polarization compass and odometer
- A visual motion detecting module for dragonfly-controlled robots
- Templates and anchors for antenna-based wall following in cockroaches and robots
- VIDEO> Mark Tilden explaining Walkman (VBug1.5) at the 1995 BEAM Robot Games
- A robust analog VLSI motion sensor based on the visual system of the fly
- VIDEO> Auke Ijspeert: A robot that runs and swims like a salamander
- Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology
- Rhythmic robot arm control using oscillators
- VIDEO> COG playing drums
- An in silico central pattern generator: silicon oscillator, coupling, entrainment, and physical computation
- Active perception
Episode Credits
Producer/Writer: Sunny Bains
Co-hosts: Sunny Bains and Giulia D’Angelo
Editor: Rose Gotto
Audio Production: Taylor Marvin, Coupe Studios Music and Sound Design
Music: 3 of Diamonds by Matt Harris
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