Situational awareness borrows ideas from human sensory systems to enhance public safety.

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The models of the sensory systems will run on a cluster of powerful graphics cards that can carry out the calculations needed to simulate bee brains.

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The sensory side of things works in a similar fashion, but instead of reconnecting nerves to different muscles, they are instead rewired to the skin's underlying sensory systems.

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The working model of the sensory systems will then be used in a robot to see if it can move around the world with the sophistication of a honey bee.

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He had been studying optics as part of his astrophysics research (on what happens when two black holes merge) several years ago when the idea popped into his head that mosquitoes find their targets using complex sensory systems.

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