Mötesplats Rydberg - (David Winge, Stanley Heinze) - Bio-inspired computing - Mimicking insect navigation in a synthetic nanowire bee brain

Tuesday 15 Feb 2022, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Stockholm

Digital

Abstract: Bee brains are a lot simpler then mammalian brains, but at the same time capable of tasks well beyond the reach of current artificial neural nets. These tasks include traveling across hundreds of kilometers of unfamiliar terrain to pinpoint a specific breeding ground, or returning to a near invisible nest entrance from several kilometers away in a straight-line trajectory, after a convoluted searching trip through dense vegetation. In addition, they use only a few drops of nectar as an energy supply. In this collaboration we investigate how nanowires could potentially be used to mimic the insect strategies for communication. We demonstrate a feasible network made up of artificial nanowire neuron nodes communicating with light in a shared waveguide system.

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