Robots

Watch The Robot With A Worm’s Mind

As the name implies, work on Artificial Intelligence is essentially an attempt to create a synthetic mind. While there are many ways of achieving the goal, some of the most promising approaches are attempts to digitally replicate the workings of a biological mind. One group of researchers has now made a significant breakthrough and got a worm’s mind to control a robot.

Caenorhabditis elegans, the worm in question, has 302 neurons that have been meticulously mapped in what is known as a connectome – a comprehensive map of neural connections in a brain. It has been studied in laboratories the world over, and now its nervous system has found a new home: inside the body of a Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot.