Archive for October, 2006

Bees’ brains for robot planes?

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Bees’ brains for robot planes?
By ERIC SHACKLE, in Sydney, Australia

Bees use their brains, the size of sesame seeds, so cleverly that an Australian scientist believes humans may manage to adapt the tiny insects’ methods when designing pilotless flying machines. It sounds like a fanciful dream - but NASA and the US military […]