BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight and Cognition
Brain Inspired
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How to Train Bees to Land on Sugar Water
The same system that keeps the the flight speed concentr tries to keep the image velocity constant at about threehundred degrees per second when they're cruising. The way we did this was to simply train bees to come and land on a drop of sugar water placed on the horizontala textured surface. When you dock a flower in approach a plane, for example, flower on a vertical plane, what you see is a sort of a expanding so if an image is like watching u stowars move something like tha, different pattern of optic flow. We found that as the bea came in and approached the thing, it again, did the same behavior. So there's a beautiful biological auto
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