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When Professor Mandyam Srinivasan began studying bees almost 35 years ago, we was interested in learning how bees landed so elegantly, and avoided colliding in mid-air.
What Mandyam discovered was a complex and astounding system of vision and flight, which is now being applied to machine vision and robotics.
He and his team at the Queensland Brain Institute built an autonomous aircraft, without GPS or radar, that flies like a bee.
The technology could have widespread applications for surveillance, rescue operations, defence, and planetary exploration.
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Mandyam Srinivasan is now Emeritus Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.
The episode of Conversations covers neuroscience, bees, sensory neuroscience, the study of bees, intelligent machines,
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