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Visual Navigation in Ants
Navigating efficiently in the outside world requires many cognitive abilities like extracting, memorising, and processing information. The remarkable navigational abilities of insects are an existence proof of how small brains can produce exquisitely efficient, robust behaviour in complex environments. During their foraging trips, insects, like ants or bees, are known to rely on both path integration and learnt visual cues to recapitulate a route or reach familiar places like the nest. The strategy of path integration is well understood, but much less is known about how insects acquire and use visual information. Field studies give good descriptions of visually guided routes, but our underst...
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2015. The 34 full and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The themes they deal with are: locomotion, particularly for soft-bodies; novel sensing and autonomous control systems; and cognitive architectures, social robots, and human-robot interaction.
L'Odyssée des fourmis
Treize mille espèces de fourmis identifiées sur la terre ! Dans ce passionnant récit à partir de leurs voyages à travers le monde, Audrey Dussutour et Antoine Wystrach, deux des plus éminents chercheurs en myrmécologie, se concentrent sur une activité essentielle chez les fourmis : la recherche de nourriture. Elles sont capables de réaliser des trajets de plusieurs centaines de mètres dans les lieux les plus hostiles. La route est semée d’embûches et de prédateurs qu’il faut pouvoir combattre à chaque instant. Incroyable mémoire, don de la stratégie, force physique herculéenne, sens de la structuration sociale, on découvrira dans ce livre le génie multiple des fourmis....
The World at Our Fingertips
What difference is there between the visual experience of watching the moon in the sky and the visual experience of seeing a snake slither by your foot? It is easy to believe our interpretation of the world is split into a binary mode, between the bodily self and everything outside it. There is, however, a buffer zone in the immediate surrounding of the body, known as peripersonal space, in which boundaries are blurred. The notion of peripersonal space calls into question not only our entrenched theories of perception, but also has major implications on the way we perceive personal and social awareness. Research has yielded a vast array of exciting discoveries on peripersonal space, across a...
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
This book constitutes the proceedings of the )th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2020, held in Freiburg, Germany, in July 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 32 full and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They deal with research on novel life-like technologies inspired by the scientific investigation of biological systems, biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems.
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2013, held in London, UK, in July/August 2013. The 65 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are targeted at the intersection of research on novel live-like technologies inspired by scientific investigation of biological systems, biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems
Desert Navigator
Winner of the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a thrilling account of the sophisticated ways insects function in their natural environments. Cataglyphis desert ants are agile ultrarunners who can tolerate near-lethal temperatures when they forage in the hot midday sun. But it is their remarkable navigational abilities that make these ants so fascinating to study. Whether in the Sahara or its ecological equivalents in the Namib Desert and Australian Outback, the Cataglyphis navigators can set out foraging across vast...
What Do Bees Think About?
Explore the mind of a bee and learn what drives its behavior. Have you ever observed a bee up close and wondered what was going on inside its head? Like ours, insects' brains take up most of the space in their heads, but their brains are smaller than a grain of rice, only 0.0002% as large as ours. But what purpose does the insect brain serve, and how does that drive their creativity, morality, and emotions? Bees in particular exhibit unexpected and fascinating cognitive skills. In What Do Bees Think About? animal cognition researcher Mathieu Lihoreau examines a century of research into insect evolution and behavior. He explains recent scientific discoveries, recounts researchers' anecdotes, and reflects on the cognition of these fascinating creatures. Lihoreau's and others scientist's research on insects reinforces the importance of protecting and preserving insects such as bees: after all, our survival on the planet is deeply dependent on theirs. This book provides an eye-opening window into the world of insect cognition and echoes an important ecological message about bees—they are intelligent creatures sharing the same fragile ecosystem as us.
