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The brain of the bee will be copied

25.05.2012

A joint study by French and Australian scientists has shown that in some cases, the bee's brain processes visual information almost as well as a human's. This opens up new possibilities for improving machine vision, since the simple brain of a bee is easier to copy electronically than the most complex human brain.

One of the lead authors of the study, Dr. Adrian Dyer of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, notes that learning mechanisms are one of the most important abilities of people that allow a person to cope with various complex tasks. “For example, if a driver wants to turn right at an intersection, then he must simultaneously observe the color of the traffic light, the flow of oncoming cars and pedestrians in order to make a decision,” explains Adrian Dyer. “Over time, our brain learns to solve such complex problems, but for robots it is it's still too hard."

The scientists decided to test whether a simple bee brain can cope with complex tasks that require the simultaneous processing of several streams of information, or if this requires at least a large and complex primate brain.

The research team trained individual bees to fly through a Y-shaped maze that consists of various elements like up/down or left/right. Surprisingly, the bees were able to simultaneously process two rules for the passage of forks and turns of the maze, which are in a certain ratio.

Thus, even without having a large complex brain, the bees were able to master several simultaneous complex information processing rules. After deciphering the relatively simple scheme of the nervous system of a bee, it will be possible to copy it and create the perfect and simple machine vision so necessary for modern robots.

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