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Locust swarm could improve collision avoidance – Mirage News
A collision detector for vehicles mimics an avoidance neuron in locusts that allows them to fly in swarms.Image: Jennifer M. McCann / Penn State. …
A collision detector for vehicles mimics an avoidance neuron in locusts that allows them to fly in swarms.
Image: Jennifer M. McCann / Penn State.
Plagues of locusts, containing millions of insects, fly across the sky to attack crops, but the individual insects do not collide with each other within these massive swarms. Now a team of engineers is creating a low-power collision detector that mimics the locust avoidance response and could help robots, drones and even self-driving cars avoid coll…
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