Navigation guides robotic future
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/ra-ngr072706.php
"UQ scientists will use a $3.3 million grant to build a new generation of robots that can learn about their physical spaces based on animal navigation skills.
The UQ led team received one of three Thinking Systems grants announced by the Federal Government on Monday.
The team will study the navigation skills of bees, rodents and humans as a way ofunderstanding the function of the hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls navigation.
"One thing that makes us special as humans is that we might be using this part of the brain not just to map physical space, which we do very effectively, but also to map the space of ideas," Team Leader and UQ cognitive scientist Professor Wiles said.
Professor Wiles said the results would then be transferred into computer models to map ideas."
"UQ scientists will use a $3.3 million grant to build a new generation of robots that can learn about their physical spaces based on animal navigation skills.
The UQ led team received one of three Thinking Systems grants announced by the Federal Government on Monday.
The team will study the navigation skills of bees, rodents and humans as a way ofunderstanding the function of the hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls navigation.
"One thing that makes us special as humans is that we might be using this part of the brain not just to map physical space, which we do very effectively, but also to map the space of ideas," Team Leader and UQ cognitive scientist Professor Wiles said.
Professor Wiles said the results would then be transferred into computer models to map ideas."
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