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Bee-inspired navigation robot pinpoints its home using a neural network

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By Barbara Webb
| Nature Verified
NEWS AND VIEWS 13 May 2026 A simple machine-learning algorithm, inspired by honeybees’ visual memory and sense of direction, enables a flying robot to pinpoint its home location. Conventional robots navigate much like humans do, relying on detailed maps of the area they are in to get around. This allows the robot to maintain an accurate estimate of its own location, but comes at a high computational cost.
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A framework for constructing insect steering circuits

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By Robert Mitchell Verified, Barbara Webb
| BioRxiv
Abstract Insects perform a variety of goal-directed navigation behaviours, each of which requires a comparison between their current and desired heading direction. Recent work has uncovered such a steering circuit in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. We used the available neuroanatomical and physiological descriptions to derive six general rules which can be used to construct a class of steering circuits which operate in the same way.
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Learning with sparse reward in a gap junction network inspired by the insect mushroom body

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By Sun Yat-sen, Qinghai Guo, Barbara Webb, Tianqi Wei
| PLOS
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Wei T, Guo Q, Webb B (2024) Learning with sparse reward in a gap junction network inspired by the insect mushroom body. PLoS Comput Biol 20(5): e1012086. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012086 Editor: Joseph Ayers, Northeastern University, UNITED STATES Received: February 21, 2023; Accepted: April 17, 2024; Published: May 23, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Wei et al.
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