What if we could design an autonomous flying robot with the navigational and learning abilities of a honeybee?
Such a computationally and energy-efficient autonomous robot would represent a step-change in robotics technology and is precisely what the ‘Brains on Board’ project aims to achieve
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Robot Hackathon for Creativity@Home
Using Creativity@Home funds, the Brains on Board project team spent a day working with the Centre for Facilitation on a robot hackathon, to develop their creative problem-solving skills. Three teams worked to try and develop [...]
Active AI grant funded
Members of the Brains on Board team have been awarded a further £1m from EPSRC to collaborate with Australian experts in invertebrate behaviour. The new grant, Active AI, is led by Prof Andy Philippides for [...]
Participation in UKRI review of Artificial Intelligence
Brains on Board project investigators Prof James Marshall, Prof Thomas Nowotny, and Prof Eleni Vasilaki participated in a number of workshops held by UK Research and Innovation, with participation from other research councils and the [...]
Introducing BeeBot V2!
The Brains on Board team in Sheffield Robotics are proud to unveil their new custom research quadcopter, BeeBotV2. Unlike the MiniBeeV1 platform, BeeBotV2 enables on-board brain models, with a modular compute and sensor payload; [...]
Introducing the MiniBee V1!
We have been developing our own quad copters to replicate the senses and flight of honey bees. Minibee is the new smallest member of our quad copter family. With panoramic [...]
Partnering with the Human Brain Project
We are pleased to announce that Brains on Board has become a Partnering Project of the Human Brain Project
The “Brains on Board” team supports open-access publishing and aims to share and disseminate outcomes to researchers and the public alike
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Meet the “Brains on Board” Project Team, Advisory Board, and Partners.
Research Centres
+ Sheffield Robotics – University of Sheffield
+ Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics – University of Sussex
+ Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology – Queen Mary University of London
+ Department of Biomedical Sciences – University of Sheffield