“Just think about what a fly can do,” says Professor Pavan Ramdya, whose lab at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute, with the lab of Professor Pascal Fua in EPFL’s Institute for Computer Science, led the study (eLife, "DeepFly3D, a deep learning-based approach for 3D limb and appendage tracking in tethered, adult Drosophila"). “A fly can climb across terrain that a wheeled robot would not be able to.” |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Flies aren’t exactly endearing to humans. We rightly associate them with less-than-appetizing experiences in our daily lives. But there is an unexpected path to redemption: Robots. It turns out that flies have some features and abilities that can inform a new design for robotic systems.
|