Brains on Board: Neuromorphic Control of Flying Robots
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Computer Science
Abstract
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. Autonomous control of mobile robots requires robustness to environmental and sensory uncertainty, and the flexibility to deal with novel environments and scenarios. Animals solve these problems through having flexible brains capable of unsupervised pattern detection and learning. Even 'small'-brained animals like bees exhibit sophisticated learning and navigation abilities using very efficient brains of only up to 1 million neurons, 100,000 times fewer than in a human brain. Crucially, these mini-brains nevertheless support high levels of multi-tasking and they are adaptable, within the lifetime of an individual, to completely novel scenarios; this is in marked contrast to typical control engineering solutions. This project will fuse computational and experimental neuroscience to develop a ground-breaking new class of highly efficient 'brain on board' robot controllers, able to exhibit adaptive behaviour while running on powerful yet lightweight General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit hardware, now emerging for the mobile devices market. This will be demonstrated via autonomous and adaptive control of a flying robot, using an on-board computational simulation of the bee's neural circuits; an unprecedented achievement representing a step-change in robotics technology.
Planned Impact
Primary beneficiaries of this research will be the UK science and technology research base, and the UK robotics and mobile computing industries, where rapid technological impact will be facilitated by close collaboration with project partners NVidia and Movidius. Both companies are leaders in the development of low energy and low weight, high-performance computing devices and are both currently partnering with drone manufacturers.
We also anticipate impacts in areas where energy and weight constraints exist, in particular in both space and agricultural robotics where we have existing collaborations. Other relevant areas are mobile technology, wearables, and pervasive computation.
We will further pursue industrial impact through foundation of a spin-out company specialising in software solutions for AI controllers, and application for follow-on funding (e.g. with Innovate UK).
Academic impact will be substantial, continuing the applicants' track record of publishing in the highest profile general science and engineering journals; foundational results in the areas of cognitive, behavioural and computational neuroscience are also anticipated, as the team takes an integrated experimental, computational and robotic approach to understanding the neural bases of complex behaviours including flight control, sensory integration, and decision-making.
There will be direct impacts through the training of the researchers on the grant. They will acquire a unique portfolio of expertise including key technologies of aerial robotics, bio-mimetic AI, and GPU accelerated computing. Their expertise will be much sought-after in the future. We will broaden this impact by offering training sessions in these key technologies to students and researchers in the involved institutions in conjunction with our regular project meetings.
The applicants have an excellent track record in public outreach both through media (e.g. lead PI Marshall interviewed on Discovery Science, BBC tv, BBC Radio 4) and outreach to schools locally, and nationally. Other activities include science festivals and public events. The team already has a long track record of such engagement with the public on all levels from school children to adults (e.g. http://greenbrain.group.shef.ac.uk/outreach/, http:// users.sussex.ac.uk/~tn41/outreach.php). Outreach activities will increase the impact of the project on the general public, which is relevant for public understanding of science and the technological potential offered by biomimetic control and robotics, as well as increasing interest in further study in STEM subjects among early secondary-age school children. Engaging strongly with the public will also be instrumental in avoiding misconceptions about the risks related to autonomous robots, something which otherwise could become a serious problem for this rapidly developing technology.
We also anticipate impacts in areas where energy and weight constraints exist, in particular in both space and agricultural robotics where we have existing collaborations. Other relevant areas are mobile technology, wearables, and pervasive computation.
We will further pursue industrial impact through foundation of a spin-out company specialising in software solutions for AI controllers, and application for follow-on funding (e.g. with Innovate UK).
Academic impact will be substantial, continuing the applicants' track record of publishing in the highest profile general science and engineering journals; foundational results in the areas of cognitive, behavioural and computational neuroscience are also anticipated, as the team takes an integrated experimental, computational and robotic approach to understanding the neural bases of complex behaviours including flight control, sensory integration, and decision-making.
There will be direct impacts through the training of the researchers on the grant. They will acquire a unique portfolio of expertise including key technologies of aerial robotics, bio-mimetic AI, and GPU accelerated computing. Their expertise will be much sought-after in the future. We will broaden this impact by offering training sessions in these key technologies to students and researchers in the involved institutions in conjunction with our regular project meetings.
The applicants have an excellent track record in public outreach both through media (e.g. lead PI Marshall interviewed on Discovery Science, BBC tv, BBC Radio 4) and outreach to schools locally, and nationally. Other activities include science festivals and public events. The team already has a long track record of such engagement with the public on all levels from school children to adults (e.g. http://greenbrain.group.shef.ac.uk/outreach/, http:// users.sussex.ac.uk/~tn41/outreach.php). Outreach activities will increase the impact of the project on the general public, which is relevant for public understanding of science and the technological potential offered by biomimetic control and robotics, as well as increasing interest in further study in STEM subjects among early secondary-age school children. Engaging strongly with the public will also be instrumental in avoiding misconceptions about the risks related to autonomous robots, something which otherwise could become a serious problem for this rapidly developing technology.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- Macquarie University (Collaboration)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) (Collaboration)
- Rothamsted Research (Collaboration)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (Collaboration)
- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing, China (Collaboration)
- WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
Publications
Abdelrahman NY
(2021)
Compensatory variability in network parameters enhances memory performance in the Drosophila mushroom body.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Baron N
(2020)
A robust geometric method of singularity avoidance for kinematically redundant planar parallel robot manipulators
in Mechanism and Machine Theory
Bennett J
(2019)
Correction to: Computing reward prediction errors and learning valence in the insect mushroom body.
in BMC neuroscience
Bennett JEM
(2021)
Learning with reinforcement prediction errors in a model of the Drosophila mushroom body.
in Nature communications
Blundell I
(2018)
Code Generation in Computational Neuroscience: A Review of Tools and Techniques.
in Frontiers in neuroinformatics
Brebner J
(2021)
Animal Cognition: The Self-Image of a Bumblebee.
in Current biology : CB
Brebner J
(2021)
Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation
in Animal Behaviour
Bridges A
(2024)
Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone
in Nature
Bridges AD
(2023)
Escaping anthropocentrism in the study of non-human culture: Comment on "Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition" by Andrew Whiten.
in Physics of life reviews
Title | Data bee training and tests |
Description | Videos (422 as of March 2022) of bees performing the experiment, from bee entry into the maze until bee exit from the maze. The videos were filmed from directly above the setup.Boris (behavioural observation software) file with manual video analysis of all videos.Link to code used for analysis of the raw extracted data.Excel files used to graph and organize final data. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/media/Data_bee_training_and_tests/19326107 |
Title | Exemplar video of bee flower choice from Honeybees solve a multi-comparison ranking task by probability matching |
Description | Flower choice video |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2020 |
URL | https://rs.figshare.com/articles/Exemplar_video_of_bee_flower_choice_from_Honeybees_solve_a_multi-co... |
Title | Exemplar video of bee flower choice from Honeybees solve a multi-comparison ranking task by probability matching |
Description | Flower choice video |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2020 |
URL | https://rs.figshare.com/articles/Exemplar_video_of_bee_flower_choice_from_Honeybees_solve_a_multi-co... |
Title | Release of the Killer Bee Queens' concept album Strange Flowers |
Description | Prof Chittka is also singer/songwriter for the band Killer Bee Queens. He wrote the lyrics and music for the album Strange Flowers, which is released on Bandcamp (see URL below). All lyrics are inspired, one way or another, by Chittka's work on bees. All proceeds of the album go to insect conservation charity Buglife. |
Type Of Art | Composition/Score |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | The release of the album was covered globally in the media, e.g. Reuters News, Russian newschannel NTV, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Technology News, Mirage News, El País. and the Russian edition of Esquire. It is hoped that it will alert the general public to the fascination of the biology of bees and the current plight of pollinators in the face of habitat loss, pesticides and emergent disease. |
URL | https://killerbeequeens.bandcamp.com/album/strange-flowers |
Title | Video S1: from Honeybees solve a multi-comparison ranking task by probability matching |
Description | Sample video of honey bee in transfer test. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2020 |
URL | https://rs.figshare.com/articles/Video_S1_from_Honeybees_solve_a_multi-comparison_ranking_task_by_pr... |
Title | Video S1: from Honeybees solve a multi-comparison ranking task by probability matching |
Description | Sample video of honey bee in transfer test. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2020 |
URL | https://rs.figshare.com/articles/Video_S1_from_Honeybees_solve_a_multi-comparison_ranking_task_by_pr... |
Description | We have designed algorithms for controlling physical robots in navigation and other autonomy tasks, by reverse-engineering real physical brain circuits to give a new approach to autonomy that is not based on machine learning. Reverse-engineering these circuits has been achieved via a combination of behavioural and neuroscience experiments conducted in the project, including placing bees in virtual reality, and tracking bees in natural environments using transponders, as well as using data from other research groups. These algorithms have been deployed on very low-power mobile computing devices (GPU and FPGA) and demonstrated in autonomous ground-based robots. Demonstration in flying robots has not yet been achieved in the project, but project spinout Opteran, which is commercialising IP from the project, has achieved this already. |
Exploitation Route | Research is being commercialised by project spinout Opteran |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Construction Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Other |
URL | http://www.opteran.com |
Description | Research findings into low-resource navigation solutions have been assigned into University of Sheffield spinout Opteran Technologies following a successful seed fund raise, in exchange for a University equity position. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Other |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | Submission to House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/artificial-intellig... |
Description | (ASENT) - Foundations of Animal Sentience |
Amount | € 1,499,864 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 851145 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 12/2024 |
Description | 3B: brains beat brawn |
Amount | £1,287,730 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 900305 |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2024 |
End | 02/2028 |
Description | ActiveAI - active learning and selective attention for robust, transparent and efficient AI |
Amount | £953,584 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S030964/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 10/2024 |
Description | Beamtime at DESY Photon Science at PETRA III beamline P10 from 28-MAY-2018 to 30-MAY-2018; DESY Drosophila experiments 28-30 May (grant I-20170823 EC) |
Amount | € 0 (EUR) |
Organisation | Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Germany |
Start | 04/2018 |
End | 05/2018 |
Description | DESY Beamline P10: I-20190808 EC 'Do all invertebrate photoreceptors contract photomechanically to enhance their visual capacities? ? an in vivo evolutionary study' |
Amount | € 0 (EUR) |
Funding ID | I-20190808 EC |
Organisation | Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Germany |
Start | 04/2020 |
End | 05/2020 |
Description | Emergent embodied cognition in shallow, biological and artificial, neural networks |
Amount | £200,036 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/X01343X/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2023 |
End | 08/2024 |
Description | How do ultrafast morphodynamic synaptic adaptations enhance visual information flow? |
Amount | € 200,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | LS-3339 |
Organisation | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | France |
Start | 03/2024 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | Insect-inspired depth perception |
Amount | £548,115 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X019705/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2023 |
End | 01/2027 |
Description | Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships in "be.AI - biomimetic embodied Artificial Intelligence" |
Amount | £1,350,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | DS-2020-065 |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 08/2027 |
Description | New insight into functional eye evolution: seeing the world through moving photoreceptors. |
Amount | £667,179 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/X006247/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2023 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | NimbleAI - Ultra energy-efficient and secure neuromorphic sensing and processing at the endpoint. |
Amount | € 9,999,433 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | Public Engagement Fund awarded to further develop bee robot activity |
Amount | £750 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Sussex |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 04/2019 |
Description | SkyEye: Feasibility Study of Vision Based Localisation in GPS-compromised Environments |
Amount | £24,993 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Training Efficient rSNNs for Loihi using Eventprop |
Amount | $77,075 (USD) |
Organisation | Intel Corporation |
Sector | Private |
Country | United States |
Start | 06/2023 |
End | 06/2024 |
Description | Unlocking spiking neural networks for machine learning research |
Amount | £834,721 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V052241/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 12/2027 |
Title | A new harmonic radar system for tracking insect in 3D |
Description | We have designed and built a new generation of harmonic radar for insect tracking.This radar uses five reciever channels tuned to maximal sensitivity at different angles. Comparison of the incoming signal across all five channels provides information on the height of the signal relative to the radar receiver and hence provides tracking information in three dimensions, rather than two as all previous entomological harmonic radar has done.The new radar can also be remotely controlled using WiFi and is intended to be more robust and simpler to use than previous models. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The new radar system has been used to collect two major datasets, which will be the first ever three-dimensional tracks of bee movements in a field setting, and which could not have been acquired any other way. This data is currently being prepared for publication. |
Title | A new high-resolution fibre-optic Cardan-arm-controlled visual stimulus display system |
Description | This 2D stimulus display unit allows controlled presentation of hyperacute moving visual objects to photoreceptors and visual interneurons (with their responses being by detected conventional sharp microelectrodes). Such information is important for establishing the visual acuity limits of the insect compound eyes and its early neural implementation. We are currently performing in vivo experiments to test these open questions. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A; This new method was generated only a few months ago and we are currently testing it. |
Title | A new high-speed calvanometric mirror/laser simulation system for generating fast moving visual objects for intracellular electrophysiology |
Description | This system allows us to measure intracellularly how well insect photoreceptors and visual interneurons (LMCs) to hyperacute moving visual objects (as detected conventional sharp microelectrodes). Such information is important for establishing the visual acuity limits of the insect compound eyes and its early neural implementation. We are currently performing in vivo experiments to test these open questions. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A; This new method was generated only a few months ago and we are currently testing it. |
Title | A new high-speed camera/microscope system for measuring in vivo photomechanical photoreceptors contractions across the Drosophila compound eyes |
Description | We designed and built a new instrument that allows one to measure in vivo photomechanical photoreceptors contractions across the Drosophila compound eyes. The system uses stepping motor-based two-axis goniometers to rotate a fly along the centre of its head under IR-illumination while stimulating selected photoreceptors through the compound eye lens systems and recording the resulting photomechanical movements. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This system is now used to produce data about how compound eyes enable stereovision that we intend to publish shortly. |
Title | A new high-speed projector system for driving virtual reality environment in the Drosophila 2-photon imaging system |
Description | We constructed a new high-speed high-resolution projector system with software tools for driving the virtual reality environment (close/open-loop) in the Drosophila 2-photon imaging system |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This system allows us to test and measure how well visual interneurons in different processing centres of the Drosophila brain/optic lobes respond to hyperacute visual objects (as detected by 2-photon calcium or voltage imaging). Such information is important for establishing the visual acuity limits of the insect compound eyes and its neural implementation. We are currently performing in vivo experiments to test these open questions. |
Title | A new high-speed projector system for intracellular electrophysiology |
Description | This system allows us to measure intracellularly how well insect photoreceptors and visual interneurons (LMCs) to hyperacute moving visual objects (as detected conventional sharp microelectrodes). Such information is important for establishing the visual acuity limits of the insect compound eyes and its early neural implementation. We are currently performing in vivo experiments to test these open questions. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | We have already recorded hyperacute intracellular voltage responses from house fly (Musca domestica) photoreceptors, suggesting that our decent discoveries and new theory (Juusola et al., ELife, 2017) about how acuity depends upon photoreceptor function and eye movements are likely applicable to all compound eyes. |
Title | A new high-speed system for optically stimulating single photoreceptors within single ommatidium and recording their photomechanical contractions |
Description | We have developed an apparatus, which enables optical stimulation of single photoreceptors within single ommatidium and recording their photomechanical contractions |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This apparatus will be important for future studies; to directly examine light-induced Drosophila R1-R7/8 rhabdomere movements inside individual ommatidia and their role for visual information sampling. |
Title | A new portable remote-controlled LED stimulation/ERG recording system for recording photoreceptor activation during x-ray stimulation/imaging in DESY and ESRF |
Description | This new method was devised to record the Drosophila eyes' global electrical responses, so-called electroretinograms (ERGs), to both white LED and x-ray flashes. The method was first used in November 2018 in ESRF Grenoble to record ERGs from a living intact wild-type fly at ESRF beamline ID16b, after carefully positioning a recording microelectrode in its right eye and a reference electrode in its thorax. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The method was successfully used to demonstrate that high-intensity x-rays can directly activate phototransduction. New publications are in preparation. |
Title | CATER: Combined Animal Tracking and Environment Reconstruction |
Description | A video analysis software for tracking of animals and reconstruction of their environment to allow high precision and high temporal resolution analysis. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The method has already been adopted by a number of other research labs, and featured in at least 1 other paper at the time of writing. |
URL | https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2094 |
Title | Development of a new odour-stimulation system for two-photon Drosophila brain imaging |
Description | We have developed a new odour-stimulation system that enables multi-sensory information processing studies using two-photon Drosophila brain imaging |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This new system enables future multi-sensory (vision + olfaction) information processing studies using two-photon Drosophila brain imaging. |
Title | New tool to rapidly and accurately reconstruct compound vision systems |
Description | New tool to rapidly and accurately reconstruct compound vision systems. The tool uses modern ray tracing graphics technologies to produce entirely new levels of accuracy. Tool is open sourced via github. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | tba |
URL | https://github.com/BrainsOnBoard/compound-ray |
Title | Virtual reality track-ball system for measuring honeybee behaviour |
Description | We have constructed a novel VR system for honeybee vision research. It is based upon a spherical projection of computer-generated images using a modified commercial data projector with an add-on fish-eye lens. This system provides equidistant visual stimulation with extensive coverage of the visual field, high spatiotemporal resolution and flexible stimulus generation using a standard computer. It also includes a track-ball system for closed-loop behavioural experiments with walking honeybees. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Not so far - the system was constructed only 6 months ago. |
Title | 3D model of an agricultural research institute |
Description | A 3D model of Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK.Data consists of one 8.7GB .obj file derived from approx. 4000 .jpg aerial photographs (totalling 33.46GB), collected by drone on 05/06/2018.This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board.This data was costly to collect and will be exploited long-term by the Brains on Board team as a unique research resource. The data is not publicly available but may be shared with other researchers at the Brains on Board team's discretion. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This 3D model has been used as a tool in a publication by Millward et al. (https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.20.461066) and is being used by several other groups witin Brains on Board to model bee flights under field conditions. |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/3D_model_of_an_agricultural_research_institute/7539851/1 |
Title | Cultural cognition in bumblebees: puzzle box open diffusion opening incidence dataset |
Description | Raw data included in the manuscript "The establishment and transmission of novel foraging techniques indicates a capacity for culture in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)". Dataset includes two seperate csv files, one compiling all box-opening incidence data in "experiment 1 and 2" (single-demonstrator diffusion experiments run for 6 or 12 consecutive days, respectively) and "experiment 3" (multiple-demonstrator diffusion experiments run for 12 days). Experiment 1 included colonies B1, B2, R1, R2, C1 and C2. Experiment 2 included colonies B3, R3, C3 and C4. Experiment 3 included populations 1R2B2 and 2R2B2. Full methodological details are available in the manuscript. Point events are listed indicating whenever a puzzle-box was opened. For each point event, the colony/population ID, day, camera number and time stamp are included, as is the behavioural variant used ("TabCol", with b = the blue-pushing behavioural variant and r = the red-pushing behavioural variant) and the ID of the bee responsible. "FullOpening" refers to whether the the bee responsible for opening the box pushed the tab =50% of the required distance in the process of doing so. In some cases, tabs would be partially pushed by bees that left before opening the box fully, meaning that bees that would then land on the box and gain the reward would not be pushing the tab all the way. This ensured that all openings assigned to observers involved directed, sustained pushing at the tab, and so were unlikely to be by chance. In the analysis included in the manuscript, whole colony data included demonstrator data and incomplete openings by learners. Data that specifically referred to learners only included only full openings by observers. Untrained bees were considered to have made the transition to learners when they had performed full box-opening twice, irrespective of behavioural variant. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Cultural_cognition_in_bumblebees_puzzle_box_open_diffusion_ope... |
Title | Data for "How foraging honeybees make fast and accurate decisions" |
Description | When bees navigate for nectar or pollen, they must continually assess the quality of their current observation and the uncertainty about future possibilities under evaluation of the expected reward and the risk of predators and energy cost. They necessitate employing an integrative process of decision-making to accomplish the highest profits. However, the mechanisms underpinning the decision making in animals with miniature brains is still mysterious. Here, we designed a multi-comparison ranking task for honeybees and video analysed their behaviours. Our results reveal honeybees' choice behaviour is sensitive to both the quality and reliability of evidence. Degrading the evidence and reward likelihood influences time to choose. Importantly, our data suggests that acceptance and rejection are not two sides of the coin. Acceptance is more discriminating and costly for bees and bees spent longer time to accept a flower compared to their fast and less accurate rejections. To investigate the minimally sufficient circuitry required for honeybee foraging choice, we developed a novel model of decision-making. Our neurobiologically plausible model of the insect brain can account for these features by incorporating information about variability and other costs. In this study, we observed a complex autonomous decision making, but with a possibly minimal neural circuitry in bees that is highly applicable in designing the future robots. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_How_foraging_honeybees_make_decisions_/1981473... |
Title | Data for 'Bumblebees Learn a Relational Rule but Switch to a Win-Stay/Lose-Switch Heuristic After Extensive Training' |
Description | Mapping animal performance in a behavioral task to underlying cognitive mechanisms and strategies is rarely straightforward, since a task may be solvable in more than one manner. Here, we show that bumblebees perform well on a concept-based visual discrimination task, but spontaneously switch from a concept-based solution to a simpler heuristic with extended training, all while continually increasing performance. Bumblebees were trained in an arena to find reward on displays with shapes of different sizes where they could not use low-level visual cues. One group of bees was rewarded at displays with bigger shapes and another group at displays with smaller shapes. Analysis of total choices shows bees increased their performance over 30 bouts to above chance. However, analyses of first and sequential choices suggest that after approximately 20 bouts, bumblebees changed to a win-stay/lose-switch strategy. Comparing bees' behavior to a probabilistic model based on a win-stay/lose-switch strategy further supports the idea that bees changed strategies with extensive training. Analyses of unrewarded tests indicate bumblebees learned and retained the concept of relative size even after they had already switched to a win-stay, lost-shift strategy. We propose that the reason for this strategy switching may be due to cognitive flexibility and efficiency. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Cognitive_strategy_switching_in_bumblebees/12344288 |
Title | Data for 'Honeybees solve a multi-comparison ranking task by probability matching' |
Description | Honeybees forage on diverse flowers which vary in the amount and type of rewards they offer, and bees are challenged with maximizing the resources they gather for their colony. That bees are effective foragers is clear, but how bees solve this type of complex multi-choice task is unknown. Here, we set bees a five-comparison choice task in which five colours differed in their probability of offering reward and punishment. The colours were ranked such that high ranked colours were more likely to offer reward, and the ranking was unambiguous. Bees' choices in unrewarded tests matched their individual experiences of reward and punishment of each colour, indicating bees solved this test not by comparing or ranking colours but by basing their colour choices on their history of reinforcement for each colour. Computational modelling suggests a structure like the honeybee mushroom body with reinforcement-related plasticity at both input and output can be sufficient for this cognitive strategy.We discuss how probability matching enables effective choices to be made without a need to compare any stimuli directly, and the use and limitations of this simple cognitive strategy for foraging animals. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_Honeybees_solve_a_multi-comparison_ranking_tas... |
Title | Data for paper: Wood ants learn the magnetic direction of a route but express uncertainty because of competing directional cues |
Description | Data for paper published in Journal of Experimental Biology July 2022 The data for each Ant in the experiments described in all but Figure 7 is held in matlab files with the name as follows: AntU_LN22WESTtest_1522_31072019_Published.mat The data for the experiments with two triangles is held in the zip file TrianglesData.zip which has individual files in the same format as above There is a detailed description of the variables in the file ants_magnets_philippides_dataset_description.pdf Abstract Wood ants were trained indoors to follow a magnetically specified route that went from the centre of an arena to a drop of sucrose at the edge. The arena, placed in a white cylinder, was in the centre of a 3D coil system generating an inclined Earth-strength magnetic field in any horizontal direction. The specified direction was rotated between each trial. The ants' knowledge of the route was tested in trials without food. Tests given early in the day, before any training, show that ants remember the magnetic route direction overnight. During the first 2 seconds of a test, ants mostly faced in the specified direction, but thereafter were often misdirected, with a tendency to face briefly in the opposite direction. Uncertainty about the correct path to take may stem in part from competing directional cues linked to the room. In addition to facing along the route, there is evidence that ants develop magnetically directed home and food vectors dependent upon path integration. A second experiment asked whether ants can use magnetic information contextually. In contrast to honeybees given a similar task, ants failed this test. Overall, we conclude that magnetic directional cues can be sufficient for route learning. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_paper_Wood_ants_learn_the_magnetic_direction_o... |
Title | Data sets - Honeybee drone tracking |
Description | Data supporting the publication "Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate between multiple aerial leks" (2021) iScience. Joseph Woodgate, James Makinson, Natacha Rossi, Ka Lim, Andrew Reynolds, Christopher Rawlings & Lars Chittka. https:doi.org/10.1016/j.sci.2021.102499 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | N/A |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_sets_-_Honeybee_drone_tracking/14462073 |
Title | Data sets used in publication |
Description | Data supporting the publication "Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate between multiple aerial leks" (2021) iScience. Joseph Woodgate, James Makinson, Natacha Rossi, Ka Lim, Andrew Reynolds, Christopher Rawlings & Lars Chittka. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_sets_used_in_publication/14462040 |
Title | Dataset and code for Guiraud et al., "Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees" |
Description | Supporting material for the publication: Marie Guiraud, Mark Roper, Stephan Wolf, Joseph L. Woodgate, Lars Chittka. 2022. Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees. Dataset and Matlab code used for all analyses presented in the publication. This study was supported by Human Frontier Science Program grant (RGP0022/2014; www.hfsp.org) to L.C.; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council program grant Brains-on-Board (EP/P006094/1; epsrc.ukri.org) to L.C.; European Research Council grant SpaceRadarPollinator (339347; erc.europa.eu) to L.C.; and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (royalsociety.org) to L.C. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_and_code_for_Guiraud_et_al_Discrimination_of_edge_orie... |
Title | Dataset for paper "Larger GPU-accelerated brain simulations with procedural connectivity" |
Description | Dataset for paper published in Nat Comput Sci Feb 2021Dataset contains raw spiking data from full-scale multi-area model simulation run using GeNN 4.3.3. Each tar.gz archive contains the configuration files for each simulation and, in the recording directory, binary numpy files contains the spike trains from each population.Archives with filenames starting with 82d3c0816b0ad1c07ea27e61eb981f7a contain spike data from three 10.5 second "ground state" simulations of the model's "ground state" (chi=1.0)Archives with filenames starting with b03fdaa1fd47a0e4a10483bc3901f1e5 contain spike data from three 100.5 second "ground state" simulations of the model's "resting state" (chi=1.9)Abstract"Simulations are an important tool for investigating brain function but large models are needed to faithfully reproduce the statistics and dynamics of brain activity.Simulating large spiking neural network models has, until now, needed so much memory for storing synaptic connections that it required high performance computer systems. Here, we present an alternative simulation method we call `procedural connectivity' where connectivity and synaptic weights are generated `on the fly' instead of stored and retrieved from memory. This method is particularly well-suited for use on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) - which are a common fixture in many workstations. Extending our GeNN software with procedural connectivity and a second technical innovation for GPU code generation, we can simulate a recent model of the Macaque visual cortex with 4.136 neurons and 24.29 synapses on a single GPU - a significant step forward in making large-scale brain modelling accessible to more researchers."FundingBrains on Board grant number EP/P006094/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_for_paper_Larger_GPU-accelerated_brain_simulati... |
Title | Dataset for paper "mlGeNN: Accelerating SNN inference using GPU-Enabled Neural Networks" |
Description | Dataset for paper accepted in IOP Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering March 2022Dataset contains trained weights from TensorFlow 2.4.0 for the following models:- vgg16_imagenet_tf_weights.h5 - VGG-16 model trained on ImageNet ILSVRC dataset - vgg16_tf_weights.h5 - VGG-16 model trained on CIFAR-10 dataset- resnet20_cifar10_tf_weights.h5 - ResNet-20 model trained on CIFAR-10 dataset- resnet34_imagenet_tf_weights.h5 - ResNet-34 model trained on ImageNet ILSVRCAbstract"In this paper we present mlGeNN - a Python library for the conversion of artificial neural networks (ANNs) specified in Keras to spiking neural networks (SNNs). SNNs are simulated using GeNN with extensions to efficiently support convolutional connectivity and batching. We evaluate converted SNNs on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet classification tasks and compare the performance to both the original ANNs and other SNN simulators. We find that performing inference using a VGG-16 model, trained on the CIFAR-10 dataset, is 2.5x faster than BindsNet and, when using a ResNet-20 model trained on CIFAR-10 with FewSpike ANN to SNN conversion, mlGeNN is only a little over 2x slower than TensorFlow."FundingBrains on Board grant number EP/P006094/1ActiveAI grant number EP/S030964/1Unlocking spiking neural networks for machine learning research grant number EP/V052241/1European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement 945539 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset_for_paper_mlGeNN_Accelerating_SNN_inference_usi... |
Title | Desert Ant Ontogeny Dataset |
Description | The entire foraging life of desert ant documented in a series of videos, provided with the tracking software, the tracks, and an environment reconstruction |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | New insights were made in the publication associated with the dataset that are driving new research questions. |
URL | https://cater.cvmls.org/ |
Title | Harmonic radar calibration data, 2021 |
Description | Approx. 18 hours of harmonic radar recordings collected under controlled conditions, used to test the performance of newly developed harmonic radar equipment and to calibrate the radar. Data were collected from June to September 2021.Data consists of approx. 200GB of data files in a custom format giving incoming signal strengths and associated timestamps. Data files will be examined to check the performance of the hardware.Additionally, the dataset contains a further approx. 800MB of mm-wave radar data in .mat file format, used to determine the height of harmonic radar transponders used to generate the harmonic radar data.This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board.This data is currently unpublished. We have no plans to make the data publicly available since it is only of use for calibrating a unique piece of radar hardware and is of no conceivable value to other researchers. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Harmonic_radar_calibration_data_2021/19299896 |
Title | JuusolaLab / GHS-DPP_paper dataset |
Description | Photoreceptor microsaccade high-speed imaging dataset |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This dataset can be used by any interested party to make photoreceptor sampling models |
URL | https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/387398797 |
Title | JuusolaLab / PNAS_paper dataset |
Description | Various datasets for our PNAS Hyperacute_Stereopsis_paper |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Any interested party can access the published data and models |
URL | https://github.com/JuusolaLab/Hyperacute_Stereopsis_paper |
Title | Photoreceptor-LMC synaptic feedback: information transmission and energy usage models |
Description | These software link in vivo and ex vivo experiments with detailed stochastically operating biophysical models to extract new mechanistic knowledge of how Drosophila photoreceptor-interneuron-photoreceptor circuitry homeostatically retains its information sampling and transmission capacity against chronic perturbations in its ion-channel composition, and what is the cost of this compensation and its impact on optomotor behaviour. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Enables accurate simulations of photoreceptor-LMC voltage output to any light intensity time series (visual) stimuli. |
URL | https://github.com/JuusolaLab/SK_Slo_Paper |
Title | Radar tracks of bumblebee workers, 2019 |
Description | Approx. 112 hours of harmonic radar recordings of displaced bumblebee workers returning to the nest in an agricultural landscape at Rothamsted Research, Herts. Data were collected from September - October 2019.Data consists of approx. 605GB of data files in a custom format giving incoming signal strengths and associated timestamps. Data files will subsequently be processed to identify signals originating from transponders attached to bees and to extract their azimuth and range.This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board.This data is currently unpublished. All the processed track files will be publicly archived on publication. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This data is being prepared for publication |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Radar_tracks_of_bumblebee_workers_2019/11551002/1 |
Title | Radar tracks of bumblebee workers, 2021 |
Description | Approx. 200 hours of harmonic radar recordings of bumblebee workers undertaking their first flights out of the nest, recorded in an agricultural landscape at Rothamsted Research, Herts. Data were collected fron July-October 2021.Data consists of approx 2.5TB of data files in a custom format giving incoming signal strengths and associated timestamps. Data files will subsequently be processed to identify signals originating from transponders attached to bees and to extract their azimuth and range.This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board.This data is currently unpublished. All the processed track files will be publicly archived on publication. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Radar_tracks_of_bumblebee_workers_2021/19299944 |
Title | Radar tracks of honeybee workers, 2019 |
Description | Approx. 68 hours of harmonic radar recordings of displaced honeybee workers returning to the nest in an agricultural landscape at Rothamsted Research, Herts. Data were collected in August 2019.Data consists of approx. 370GB of data files in a custom format giving incoming signal strengths and associated timestamps. Data files will subsequently be processed to identify signals originating from transponders attached to bees and to extract their azimuth and range.This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board.This data is currently unpublished. All the processed track files will be publicly archived on publication. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This data is currently being prepared for publication |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Radar_tracks_of_honeybee_workers_2019/11550903/1 |
Title | Radar tracks of unmated honeybee queens, 2016 |
Description | Approx. 23 hours of harmonic radar recordings monitoring the movement of unmated honeybee queens in an agricultural landscape. Data were collected in August 2016. Data consists of incoming signal strengths and associated timestamps in a custom format. Data files will subsequently be processed to identify signals originating from transponders attached to bees and to extract their azimuth and range. This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board. This data is currently unpublished. All the processed track files will be publicly archived on publication. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | These data supported a publcation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102499 |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Radar_tracks_of_unmated_honeybee_queens_2016/7539791/1 |
Title | Radar tracks of unmated honeybee queens, 2017 |
Description | Approx. 197 hours of harmonic radar recordings monitoring the movements of unmated honeybee queens in an agricultural landscape. Data were collected from June-September 2017. Data consists of incoming signal strengths and associated timestamps in a custom format. Data files will subsequently be processed to identify signals originating from transponders attached to bees and to extract their azimuth and range. This data was collected as part of projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board. This data is currently unpublished. All the processed track files will be publicly archived on publication. Please direct any enquiries to Joseph Woodgate, j.woodgate@qmul.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | These data supported a publcation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102499 |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Radar_tracks_of_unmated_honeybee_queens_2017/7539797/1 |
Title | Raw flight track date for the following paper: Woodgate et al 2017 Scientific Reports 7: 17323 doi: 10.1038/ |
Description | As required, this database makes available the raw data and data visualisations that form the basis of the following paper: Woodgate JL., Makinson JC., Lim KS., Reynolds AM. & Chittka L. (2017) Continuous Radar Tracking Illustrates the Development of Multi-destination Routes of Bumblebees. Scientific Reports 7: 17323 doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17553-1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | There have not been any impacts yet, though we anticipate that the open accessibility of this database will be very useful for other scientists |
URL | https://osf.io/ykmdh/ |
Title | Research data for paper "Geosmin suppresses defensive behaviour and elicits unusual neural responses in honey bees" |
Description | Research data for paper published in Scientific Reports journal March 2023 This data explores the effects of Geosmin on honeybees and has three separate parts: 1. Behavioural data on the stinging response of bees towards a dummy in the presence of the alarm pheromone and Geosmin 2. Electro-antennogram (EAG) data of the response to Geosmin on bees' antenna 3. Calcium imaging data illustrating the neural response to Geosmin in the honey bee antennal lobe. Data & File Overview File List: Bee_Aggression_Behaviour.csv: Bees' stinging responses towards a rotating dummy Bee_AL_Calcium_imaging.csv: Calcium imaging time traces for individual odour stimuli and glomeruli in all bees Bee_EAG_Data.csv: Electroantennography response amplitudes for individual odour stimuli in all bees Methodological Information all Methods described in: Scarano F, Deivarajan Suresh M, Tiraboschi E, Cabirol A, Nouvian M, Nowotny T, Haase A. Geosmin suppresses defensive behaviour and elicits unusual neural responses in honey bees. Sci Rep 13:3851 (2023) Data-specific Information for: 'Bee_Aggression_Behaviour.csv' The data file contains observational data from an aggression assay, where 325 bee dyads were inserted into an arena with a rotating dummy. Data indicates whether a behaviour was observed or not from one or both bees. Further details in the Methods sections of Scarano et al. 2021 Number of variables/columns: 17 Number of cases/rows: 324 Variable List: A) Day: Date in which bees were tested, DD/MM/YYYY B) Weather: Describes the weather on the trial date, Sunny / Cloudy C) Hive: Hive colour recognised by the paint colour from which the bees have been acquired, Orange / White / Green / Yellow D) Dummy: Which of two arenas used in that behavioural trial, A / B E) Group: Represents the odours - VOCs and its mixtures with the respective concentrations, IAA / Geosmin6 / Geosmin3 / IAAGeo3 / IAAGeo6 / Control, Concentrations: 3 (10^-3) & 6 (10^-6) F) Sting.Bee1: Represents if bee one exhibits stinging behaviour, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary G) Sting.Bee2: Represents if bee two exhibits stinging behaviour, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary H) Recruit.Bee1: Represents if bee one exhibits recruiting behaviour, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary I) Recruit.Bee2: Represents if bee two exhibits recruiting behaviour, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary J) Grooming/Calm: Represents if the bees exhibit grooming or calm behaviour, 0 (none) /1 /2, number of bees K) Batch: Represents in which time batch the trials were conducted, 1 (Morning) / 2 (Afternoon), numerical - time period L) number.sting: Represents number of bees stinging in a trial, 0/1/2, number of bees M) number.recruit: Represents number of bees recruiting in a trial, 0/1/2, number of bees N) sting.first: Represents if the stinging behaviour was exhibited first in a trial, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary O) recruit.first: Represents if the recruiting behaviour was exhibited first in a trial, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary P) b.sting: Represents if there was any stinging behaviour exhibited by the two bees during that trial, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary Q) b.recruit: Represents if there was any recruiting behaviour exhibited by the two bees during that trial, 0 (no) / 1 (yes), binary Data-specific Information for: 'Bee_EAG_Data.csv' Data are electroantennography responses for 24 antennas exposed to different odour stimuli. Data points are voltage change amplitudes with respect to the baseline, averaged over the 1s stimulus duration. Further datails in the Methods sections of Scarano et al. 2021 Number of variables/columns: 16 Number of cases/rows: 24 Variable List: A) Bee: subject numbers B-P) Responses to different Odours and Concentrations Values are average potential change (over 10 repetitions) in response to the presented odour stimuli in units of Volt Odours presented: Control = pure mineral oil (solvent) Geo = geosmin in mineral oil at a concentration indicated in brackets IAA = Isoamil acetate in mineral oil at a concentration indicated in brackets B) Control mineral oil C) Geo (10^-6) D) Geo (10^-5) E) Geo (10^-4) F) Geo (10^-3) G) IAA (10^-3) H) IAA (10^-3)+ Geo (10^-6) I) IAA (10^-3)+ Geo (10^-5) J) IAA (10^-3)+ Geo (10^-4) K) IAA (10^-3)+ Geo (10^-3) L) IAA (10^-1) M) IAA (10^-1)+ Geo (10^-6) N) IAA (10^-1)+ Geo (10^-5) O) IAA (10^-1)+ Geo (10^-4) P) IAA (10^-1)+ Geo (10^-3) Data-specific Information for: 'Bee_AL_Calcium_imaging.csv' The data file contains response curve from up to 19 glomeruli in the antennal lobe of 14 bees, data are relative changes in fluorescence averaged over the glomerular area. The fluorescence changes stem from projection neurons that were stained by backfill injection with the calcium-sensitive dye fura-dextrane. Further details in Methods sections of Scarano et al. 2021 Number of variables/columns: 95 Number of cases/rows: 1720 Variable List: A) Bee-id: Subject number B) Glo_id: Glomerulus number following bee antennal lobe standard atlas nomenclature for tract T1 C) Odour: Stimulus odour type Geo6 = Geosmin at concentration 10^-6 in mineral oil Geo3 = Geosmin at concentration 10^-3 in mineral oil IAA = Isoamyl acetate at concentration 10^-1 in mineral oil 3Hex = 3-hexanol at concentration 5x10^-3 in mineral oil acetoph = Acetophenone at concentration 5x10^-3 in mineral oil non = 1-nonanol at concentration 5x10^-3 in mineral oil IAA-Glo are mixtures of both odours D) Response: Automatized response classification (1 activated, 2 background activity, 2 inhibited) E-CQ) Frame_1-91: Glomerular response curves, 91 frames, 10.033 frames/s, Curves cover a 1s prestimulus interval (frames 1-30), 1s stimulus (frames 31-60), and 1s post stimulus (frames 61-91). Values are fluorescence changes in percent, averaged over the glomerular area, background subtracted and normalized with respect to the background. Article Abstract Geosmin is an odorant produced by bacteria in moist soil. It has been found to be extraordinarily relevant to some insects, but the reasons for this are not yet fully understood. Here we report the first tests of the effect of geosmin on honey bees. A stinging assay showed that the defensive behaviour elicited by the bee's alarm pheromone component isoamyl acetate (IAA) is strongly suppressed by geosmin. Surprisingly, the suppression is, however, only present at very low geosmin concentrations, and disappears at higher concentrations. We investigated the underlying mechanisms at the level of the olfactory receptor neurons by means of electroantennography, finding the responses to mixtures of geosmin and IAA to be lower than to pure IAA, suggesting an interaction of both compounds at the olfactory receptor level. Calcium imaging of the antennal lobe (AL) revealed that neuronal responses to geosmin decreased with increasing concentration, correlating well with the observed behaviour. Computational modelling of odour transduction and coding in the AL suggests that a broader activation of olfactory receptor types by geosmin in combination with lateral inhibition could lead to the observed non-monotonic increasing-decreasing responses to geosmin and thus underlie the specificity of the behavioural response to low geosmin concentrations. Links to other resources relating to the data Computational modelling software that aims at reproducing the Calicum and EAG data indcluded here, is available on https://github.com/tnowotny/bee_al_2021 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Research_data_for_paper_Geosmin_suppresses_defensive_be... |
Title | Stanmer Park outdoor navigational data |
Description | This dataset contains omnidirectional 1440?1440 resolution images taken using a Kodak Pixpro SP360 camera paired with RTK GPS information obtained using a simple RTK2B - 4G NTRIP kit and fused yaw, pitch and roll data recorded from a BNO055 IMU. The data was collected using a 4 wheel ground robot that was manually controlled by a human operator. The robot was driven 15 times along a route at Stanmer Park (shown in map.png). The route consists mostly of open fields and a narrow path through a forest and is approximately 700m long. The recordings took place at various days and times starting in March 2021, with the date and time indicated by the filename. For example '20210420_135721.zip' corresponds to a route driven on 20/03/2021 starting at 13:57:21 GMT. During the recordings the weather varied from clear skies and sunny days to overcast and low light conditions. Each recording consists of an mp4 video of the camera footage for the route, and a database_entries.csv file with the following columns:Timestamp of video frame (in ms)X, Y and Z coordinate (in mm) and zone representing location in UTM coordinates from GPSHeading, pitch and roll (in degrees) from IMU. In some early routes, the IMU failed and when this occurs these values are recorded as "NaN".Speed and Steering angle commands being sent to robot at that timeGPS quality (1=GPS, 2=DGNSS, 4=RTK Fixed and 5=RTK Float)X, Y and Z coordinates (in mm) fitted to a degree one polynomial to smooth out GPS noiseHeading (in degrees) derived from smoothed GPS coordinatesIMU heading (in degrees) with discontinuities resulting from IMU issues fixedFor completeness, each folder also contains a database_entries_original.csv containing the data before pre-processing. The pre-processing is documented in more detail in pre_processing_notes.pdf. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Stanmer_Park_outdoor_navigational_data/25118383 |
Title | Track information and field site line coordinates |
Description | Excel table with all general information about each track, including Bee ID, date, and flight type.Coordinates of all pixels corresponding to a linear feature, from black and white version of satellite image. Includes reference coordinates of two locations. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Data used to support a publication: Joanna S. Brebner, James C. Makinson, Olivia K. Bates, Natacha Rossi, Ka S. Lim, Thibault Dubois, Tamara Gómez-Moracho, Mathieu Lihoreau, Lars Chittka, Joseph L. Woodgate, Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation, Animal Behaviour, Volume 179, 2021, Pages 147-160, ISSN 0003-3472, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.003. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347221002177) |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Track_information_and_field_site_line_coordinates/14597646/1 |
Title | Tracks of one eyed ants |
Description | Ant movement tracks supporting the publication:Joseph L. Woodgate, Craig Perl, Thomas S. Collett; The routes of one-eyed ants suggest a revised model of normal route following. J Exp Biol 15 August 2021; 224 (16): jeb242167. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242167Joseph Woodgate was funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Tracks_of_one_eyed_ants/19329827 |
Title | Videos of bumblebees flying in experimental arena |
Description | 360 MOV videos, ranging from 2min to 13min in length,1280x720 px, 239.98 fps.Total size: 46.1GBVideos are in the process of being analyzed for bee behaviour and full track information.Data collected as part of a project funded through EPSRC under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board. Please direct any inquiries to Joanna Brebner, j.s.brebner@qmul.ac.uk |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This work is currently being prepared for publication |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Videos_of_bumblebees_flying_in_experimental_arena/11627517/1 |
Title | Videos of honeybees flying through an outdoor corridor |
Description | 3x 25 20-30min videos of bees flying in an outdoor corridor. Bees were filmed from two angles, as well as from a feeding location.1920x1080 px, 29.98 fps. Total size: 186.4GBVideos to be analyzed.Data collected as part of a project funded through EPSRC under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board.Please direct any inquiries to Joanna Brebner, j.s.brebner@qmul.ac.uk |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This data is being analysed in preparation for publication |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Videos_of_honeybees_flying_through_an_outdoor_corridor/11628294/1 |
Description | Brains on Board is a Human Brain Project Partnering Project |
Organisation | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We are contributing research in GPU accelerated Spiking Neural Networks and bio-mimetic robotic control inspired by insects as a benchmark/counterpoint to similar efforts in the HBP focussed more on neuromorphic solutions and mammalian models. |
Collaborator Contribution | Parallel work on related research questions in neuromorphic computing and neurorobotics. Some partnership activities. Note: I have indicated EPFL who currently is the coordinator of the HBP but the partnership is with the entire project that encompasses some 150 Institutions. |
Impact | Thomas Nowotny presented Brains on Board as a partnering project at the 2020 Human Brain Project Summit in Athens. The partnership is highly interdisciplinary but the main interactions are of like-minded neuromorphic engineers and computer scientists. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with Dr Nicholas Szczecinski (West Virginia University) |
Organisation | West Virginia University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I collaborated with Dr Szczecinski to propose and run a workshop at the 10th Anniversary Living Machines Conference. INVERTEBRATE ROBOTICS, AKA "NO BACKBONE, NO PROBLEM" - 29 JULY 2021. We then further collaborated on a review paper that summarised the key themes of the workshop. |
Collaborator Contribution | I collaborated with Dr Szczecinski to propose and run a workshop at the 10th Anniversary Living Machines Conference. INVERTEBRATE ROBOTICS, AKA "NO BACKBONE, NO PROBLEM" - 29 JULY 2021. We then further collaborated on a review paper that summarised the key themes of the workshop. |
Impact | The workshop that we ran was a great success at the conference which was held during COVID lockdown. The summary outcomes were presented in a review paper published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics in 2023. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Collaboration with Forschungszentrum Juelich in the "Learning to Learn" project |
Organisation | Julich Research Centre |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are participating in a consortium of research groups who are investigating the use of Learning-to-learn methods on a variety of machine learning and computational neuroscience tasks. |
Collaborator Contribution | Other partners contribute their models and time for testing learning-to-learn methods. Juelich has provided the required compute time on their HPC systems. |
Impact | Outputs are still in preparation. The collaboration involves computer scientists, physicists and computational biologists. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with Macquarie University |
Organisation | Macquarie University |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | They are project partners on the ActiveAI grant. We will have reciprocal visits of PIs and Postdocs when they are allowed. We are helping them with modelling and computational analysis of data. |
Collaborator Contribution | They are project partners on the ActiveAI grant. We will have reciprocal visits of PIs and Postdocs when they are allowed. They are providing us with results from insect experiments which will inform our robotic models |
Impact | the collaboration is multi-disciplinary: we do robotics and computational modelling, they do insect neuroscience |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Expansion of the available harmonic radar equipment for insect tracking at Rothamsted Research for threedimensional tracking |
Organisation | Rothamsted Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We provide the biological and behavioural expertise of insect navigation that is needed for this collaboration. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partner institution has constructed a 3-dimensional harmonic radar unit that will allow long-distance tracking of insect flight in all three dimensions. They are currently in the process of developing the necessary software. |
Impact | A first publication has resulted and is listed under the relevant output section. It is Woodgate JL., Makinson JC., Lim KS., Reynolds AM. & Chittka L. (2017)Continuous Radar Tracking Illustrates the Development of Multi-destination Routes of Bumblebees. Scientific Reports 7: 17323 doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17553-1. The work is multidisciplinary insofar as it a collaboration between radar engineers and biologists. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | PI of a research laboratory in National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing, China |
Organisation | National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing, China |
Country | China |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Minimum of 2 months/year to work on information processing in Drosophila visual system and in the mammalian cortex in BNU, China. National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning has provided me with a fully-equipped research laboratory, including fly facilities; three experimental rooms, two of which are electrically shielded for behavioural and electrophysiological studies; and office rooms for workers (currently funding 2 Ph.D. students and a lab manager). Their total investment into my BNU laboratory already amounts to ~£1,400,000. |
Collaborator Contribution | Basic research infrastructure and funding including studentships, totaling £1,400,000 so far. |
Impact | In 2015, I was selected as a High-End Foreign Expert by the Chinese National Recruitment Program of High-End Foreign Experts (2015). This was 3-year fellowship (ending on 31 Dec 2017). National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning has since extended my BNU professorship for further 3 years, with the same level of base funding. |
Start Year | 2008 |
Title | MOTION DETECTORS |
Description | Examples relate to detectors for determining motion from visual cues, said determining being invariant to changes in at least one of temporal and spatial frequencies of said visual cues. |
IP Reference | WO2018203094 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2018 |
Licensed | Yes |
Impact | This discovery forms part or all of two Journal Publications (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004887 & https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172325) and is key to ongoing research and commercialisation |
Title | BoB Robotics |
Description | This repository contains code for interfacing with various robot platforms and other associated hardware, as well as code for running simulations and visualising data. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | N/A |
URL | https://brainsonboard.github.io/bob_robotics/ |
Title | CATER: combined animal tracking and environment reconstruction |
Description | Method to extract animal positions from video data and to embed those tracks in a reconstructed background allowing high spatiotemporal analysis of animal behaviour in the wild and with reference to the habitat. |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Insights raised from analysis linked to methods paper Multiple lab groups now using the tool New studies have been inspired by these outcomes. |
URL | https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2094 |
Title | CompoundRay: An open-source tool for high-speed and high-fidelity rendering of compound eye |
Description | CompoundRay is new open-source renderer that accurately renders the visual perspective of insect eyes at over 5,000 frames per second in a 3D mapped natural environment. It supports ommatidial arrangements at arbitrary positions with per-ommatidial heterogeneity. |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | The basis for investigation of insect shape on visual homing tasks - Blayze Millward. A new collaboration with researchers at Flinders University (Dr Karin Nordstrum) A new collaboration with researchers at DeepMind (Dr Chrisantha Fernando) |
URL | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.20.461066v1 |
Title | Data and Code for: Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks |
Description | If we are truly interested in the evolution of cognition in its many forms, it is vital to understand not simply that an animal can solve a task, but how the animal is solving the task. Here, we examined how bees solve a numeric-based task utilizing stimuli common amongst numerical cognition studies. Bees performed well on the task, but additional tests showed that they had learned continuous (non-numerical) cues. In simulations a simple network model containing just nine elements was capable of learning the task, but did so using continuous cues inherent in the training stimuli, with no numerical processing. This model was able to reproduce behaviours that have been considered in other studies indicative of numerical cognition. Our results support the idea that a sense of magnitude may be more primitive and basic than any sense of number. Our findings highlight how problematic inadvertent continuous cues can be for animal studies of numerical cognition. This remains a deep issue within the field of numerical cognition that requires increased vigilance and cleverness on our (the experimenter's) part. We discuss what we view as currently the best methods for, and suggest new ways by which we can improve assessing, numerical cognition in non-speaking animals. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/software/Honeybees_cheat_on_math_tests_examining_the_use_of_num... |
Title | Data and Code for: Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks |
Description | If we are truly interested in the evolution of cognition in its many forms, it is vital to understand not simply that an animal can solve a task, but how the animal is solving the task. Here, we examined how bees solve a numeric-based task utilizing stimuli common amongst numerical cognition studies. Bees performed well on the task, but additional tests showed that they had learned continuous (non-numerical) cues. In simulations a simple network model containing just nine elements was capable of learning the task, but did so using continuous cues inherent in the training stimuli, with no numerical processing. This model was able to reproduce behaviours that have been considered in other studies indicative of numerical cognition. Our results support the idea that a sense of magnitude may be more primitive and basic than any sense of number. Our findings highlight how problematic inadvertent continuous cues can be for animal studies of numerical cognition. This remains a deep issue within the field of numerical cognition that requires increased vigilance and cleverness on our (the experimenter's) part. We discuss what we view as currently the best methods for, and suggest new ways by which we can improve assessing, numerical cognition in non-speaking animals. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/software/Honeybees_cheat_on_math_tests_examining_the_use_of_num... |
Title | Data and Code for: Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks |
Description | If we are truly interested in the evolution of cognition in its many forms, it is vital to understand not simply that an animal can solve a task, but how the animal is solving the task. Here, we examined how bees solve a numeric-based task utilizing stimuli common amongst numerical cognition studies. Bees performed well on the task, but additional tests showed that they had learned continuous (non-numerical) cues. In simulations a simple network model containing just nine elements was capable of learning the task, but did so using continuous cues inherent in the training stimuli, with no numerical processing. This model was able to reproduce behaviours that have been considered in other studies indicative of numerical cognition. Our results support the idea that a sense of magnitude may be more primitive and basic than any sense of number. Our findings highlight how problematic inadvertent continuous cues can be for animal studies of numerical cognition. This remains a deep issue within the field of numerical cognition that requires increased vigilance and cleverness on our (the experimenter's) part. We discuss what we view as currently the best methods for, and suggest new ways by which we can improve assessing, numerical cognition in non-speaking animals. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/software/Honeybees_cheat_on_math_tests_examining_the_use_of_num... |
Title | GPU enhanced Neuronal Networks (GeNN) |
Description | Software package to simulate neuronal networks on GPU accelerators using a domain specific language/ code-generation approach. (latest release 1.2, 2014) |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The tool is still in alpha. Notable impacts are expected somewhat later. |
URL | https://github.com/genn-team/genn |
Title | PyNN SpiNNaker |
Description | SpiNNaker backend for PyNN 0.8 - a simulator-independent language for building neuronal network models. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Enabled the research presented in 'Synapse-centric mapping of cortical models to the SpiNNaker neuromorphic architecture' |
URL | https://github.com/project-rig/pynn_spinnaker |
Title | Software code used in Li et al (2019) Ca2+-activated K+ channels reduce network excitability, improving adaptability and energetics for transmitting and perceiving sensory information. Journal of Neuroscience |
Description | Code to reproduce the model simulations in Li et al (2019) Ca2+-activated K+ channels reduce network excitability, improving adaptability and energetics for transmitting and perceiving sensory information. Journal of Neuroscience. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Code to reproduce the model simulations in Li et al (2019) Ca2+-activated K+ channels reduce network excitability, improving adaptability and energetics for transmitting and perceiving sensory information. Journal of Neuroscience. The software can be easily adapted to other invertebrate photoreceptor models. |
URL | https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/36/7132 |
Title | brian2genn |
Description | This software provides an interface from the popular "Brian" simulator (version 2) to our GPU enhanced neuronal networks (GeNN) framework that allows users to define computational neuroscience models in Brian 2 and with a single command run them on a GPU accelerator. Depending on the type of model and accelerator, considerable speedups are possible without any additional effort by the users. The software is in pre-alpha stage and will be released in beta together with the first full release of Brian 2. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | We are waiting on measurable impacts which we expect upon the first public release. |
URL | https://github.com/brian-team/brian2genn |
Description | Code used to analyse ant movement tracks for publication:Joseph L. Woodgate, Craig Perl, Thomas S. Collett; The routes of one-eyed ants suggest a revised model of normal route following. J Exp Biol 15 August 2021; 224 (16): jeb242167. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242167Joseph Woodgate was funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grant no. EP/P006094/1, Brains on Board. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/software/Matlab_code_used_in_analysis_of_ant_tracks/14748195 |
Description | Code used to process and analyse data for the publication "Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate between multiple aerial leks" (2021) iScience. Joseph Woodgate, James Makinson, Natacha Rossi, Ka Lim, Andrew Reynolds, Christopher Rawlings & Lars Chittka. https:doi.org/10.1016/j.sci.2021.102499 |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/software/Code_used_for_data_processing_and_analysis_-_Honeybee_drone_t... |
Description | Data supporting the publication "Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate between multiple aerial leks" (2021) iScience. Joseph Woodgate, James Makinson, Natacha Rossi, Ka Lim, Andrew reynmolds, Christopher Rawlings & Lars Chittka. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/software/Matlab_code_used_in_data_processing_and_analysis/14462055 |
Description | Part of the matlab code necessary to extract XY coordinates from raw harmonic radar output. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/software/Matlab_raw_radar_track_processing_code_ConvertRadar2GPSandXY_... |
Company Name | Opteran Technologies |
Description | Opteran Technologies develops technology based on the navigational capabilities in the brains of bees, designed to be used in autonomous technologies. |
Year Established | 2020 |
Impact | Opteran is in the process of signing up commercial customers under development licences. |
Website | https://opteran.com/ |
Description | A press release by Queen Mary University of London about our Science paper on cross-modal recognition in bees |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A press release about our Science paper on cross modal object recognition was released in February 2020. This resulted in global media coverage, for example in The Times, ABCNews, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, Cosmos, Daily Mail, BBC World Service and many others. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2020/se/bumblebees-can-experience-an-object-using-one-sense-and-la... |
Description | ABC Radio (Australia) interview on insect-inspired AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Radio interview to inform general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for Agence-France Presse by Juliette Collen (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article for Agence-France Presse (published in English on barrons.com) about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.barrons.com/news/not-just-humans-bees-and-chimps-can-also-pass-on-their-skills-120bea84 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for DIE ZEIT by Ulrich Schnabel (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article in DIE ZEIT about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone", which appeared both in print and online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.zeit.de/2024/11/tiere-intelligenz-hummeln-menschenaffen-kultur |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for Diario ABC by Patricia Biosca (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article for Diario ABC about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.abc.es/ciencia/personas-unicos-animales-cultura-chimpances-abejas-ensenan-20240306190404... |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for El Pais by Daniel Mediavilla (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article in El Pais about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-03-10/bees-and-chimpanzees-can-learn-socially-just-like... |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for Haaretz by Gidón Lev (March 2024, publication TBA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article in Haaretz about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for New Scientist by Sofia Quaglia (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article in New Scientist about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2420960-bumblebees-show-each-other-how-to-solve-complex-puzzles... |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for a prerecorded broadcast on SWR2 "Impuls" (4th March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for a prerecorded broadcast on SWR2's "Impuls" program by Elisabeth Theodoropoulos, about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for a prerecorded broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR) with Joachim Budde (1st March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for a prerecorded broadcast on the WGR science programme by Joachim Budde, about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for an article in Scientific American by Rachel Nuwer (5th March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article for Scientific American about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-thought-only-humans-learn-complex-behaviors-fr... |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for article on sentientmedia.org by Björn Ólafsson (12th March 2024, publication date TBA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for an article on sentientmedia.org about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for prerecorded CBC "Quirks and Quarks" broadcast with Bob McDonald (13th March 2024, airing date TBC) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for a prerecorded broadcast on the CBC programme "Quirks and Quarks" by Bob McDonald, about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed for prerecorded Swiss Radio broadcast with Christian von Burg (5th March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed for a prerecorded broadcast on Swiss Radio by Christian von Burg, about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed on Radio 5 Live Breakfast by Rick Edwards and Nina Warhurst (8th March 2024, 6:50am UK time) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed live for Radio 5 Live by Rick Edwards and Nina Warhurst about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Alice Bridges interviewed on Times Radio (7th March 2024, 6.25pm UK time) with presenter John Pienaar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alice Bridges was interviewed live for Times Radio by John Pienaar about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | An article for Twig Science Reporter (March 2024 publication date TBA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An article on the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" was prepared for a target audience of children aged 7-11 to be released on Twig Science Reporter, which is made in conjunction with Imperial College London and is free to access across schools in the UK and USA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | An article published on Yahoo News Taiwan (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article on Yahoo News (Taiwan) was published about "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%A4%A7%E9%BB%83%E8%9C%82%E9%A9%9A%E8%B1%94%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%B8%E7%95%8C-%... |
Description | Andy Phillipides was interviewed by BBC south east about a 'robotic' grape harvester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | TV interview with local media to discuss a 'robotic' grape harvester |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Article about insect intelligence in Newsweek |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview the led to a major article in the journal Newsweek, published here: https://www.newsweek.com/do-insects-have-brains-1683193 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.newsweek.com/do-insects-have-brains-1683193 |
Description | Article about insect sentience in BBC Future "Why insects are more sensitive than they seem" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | An article about insects sentience, based on interviews with myself and several other key researchers in the field. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211126-why-insects-are-more-sensitive-than-they-seem |
Description | Article about insect sentience in BBC Future "Why insects are more sensitive than they seem" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | An article about insects sentience, based on interviews with myself and several other key researchers in the field. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211126-why-insects-are-more-sensitive-than-they-seem |
Description | Article for the Conversation by Joe Woodgate describing newly published work by Woodgate et al |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A popular science article written by Joe Woodgate and describing a recent publication by Woodgate et al for a general audience. This has reached more than 75,000 readers and was the most read article on The Conversation in 2021 from Queen Mary University of London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/we-tracked-male-honeybees-for-two-years-to-find-out-where-they-look-for-... |
Description | Article in The Register |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article in The Register in response to 'Larger GPU-accelerated brain simulations with procedural connectivity' paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/video_games_srs_business/ |
Description | Article in The Times following AAAS 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Times published an article on the project 'Bees help drones to find their bearings', on 17/02/2020, following on from us exhibiting at AAAS 2020 with URKI on 15/02/2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bees-help-drones-to-find-their-bearings-jfnfgs8x2 |
Description | Article in The Times on newly published paper by Joanna Brebner et al |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Half-page article in The Times newspaper describing a recently published paper by Joanna Brebner et al and featuring two photos. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Article in The Times on newly published paper by Joe Woodgate et al |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article in The Times newspaper describing a recently published paper by Joe Woodgate et al and featuring quotes from an interview with Woodgate. This story was also picked up by numerous online news outlets including the Financial Times and Daily Mail. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Article in Znet promoting a newly published paper by Jamie Knight |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Article in Znet promoting a newly published paper by project member James Knight. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.zdnet.com/article/who-needs-a-supercomputer-your-desktop-pc-and-a-gpu-might-be-enough-to... |
Description | Article on ScienceAlert (by Carly Cassella) (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article on ScienceAlert.com was published about "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.sciencealert.com/bees-reveal-a-human-like-collective-intelligence-we-never-knew-existed |
Description | Article published by The Telegraph following on from AAAS 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Telegraph published an article on the project 'Bees are being mapped to help develop driverless cars and drones by scientists glueing tiny antennas to their heads', on 17/02/2020, following on from us exhibiting at AAAS 2020 with URKI on 15/02/2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/17/bees-mapped-help-develop-driverless-cars-drones-scientis... |
Description | Article published in Chosun Biz (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article on Chosen Biz was published about "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://biz.chosun.com/science-chosun/nature-environment/2024/03/07/IBVEHROAHJHJ7CBP4NTTDD2OXQ/ |
Description | Article published in Der Spiegel (by Johann Grolle) (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article in Der Spiegel was published about "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/schimpansen-oder-hummeln-wer-ist-schlauer-a-1e5b92d2-a862-... |
Description | Article published in The Korea Economic Daily (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article in The Korean Economic Daily was published about "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.hankyung.com/article/202403072657Y |
Description | Article published in The Times (by Rhys Blakely) (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article in The Times was published about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bumblebees-teach-each-other-how-to-unlock-doors-and-find-treats-2... |
Description | Article published in the London Evening Standard (6th March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article in the London Evening Standard was published about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Article published on BBC News (by Ian Aikman) (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article on BBC News was published about the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68501263 |
Description | Article published on ethologisch.de (by Niklas Kastner) (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article on ethologisch.de was published about "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://ethologisch.de/neue-erkenntnisse-zum-sozialen-lernen-bei-schimpansen-und-hummeln/ |
Description | Article published on phys.org (by Queen Mary University of London) (March 2024) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A press release by QMUL was published on phys.org for the study "Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://phys.org/news/2024-03-bumblebees-scientists-advanced-social-skills.html |
Description | Assisting Barnsley Beekeeping Association develop a honey bee breeding programme for members |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Outreach with Barnsley Beekeeping Association to pass on knowledge and assist them to develop a honey bee breeding programme for members. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | BBC Click coverage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Broadcast coverage of project spinout Opteran |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IRkRzWCPE |
Description | BBC Radio Sussex interview 08/03/2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Andrew Philippides took part in a radio discussion on 'Would you trust a robot to mind your child?' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | BRANDY summer school, June 2019. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation of GeNN, by Thomas Nowotny. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Beekeepers' meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Neville Dearden (project beekeeper) was invited to a talk at Barnsley beekeepers Association. He discussed beekeeping in general and the work involved with Brains on Board and more at University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Big Bang Fair South East 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | James Bennett participated as a competition judge at Big Bang Fair South East (outreach event), 26 June 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Big Bang South East 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Event for children/pupils to get them interested in STEM fields, Bee VR. 27-28/06/2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Bright Sparks (Brighton Science Festival 2017) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We ran a series of workshops on bio-inspired robotics, aimed at children aged 7-14 years, over two the course of days (11-12 Feb), as part of the Brighton Science Festival. This event also provided ample opportunity to informally discuss the project with parents and other members of the public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.brightonscience.com/bright-sparks-2017/ |
Description | Bright Sparks (Brighton Science Festival 2018) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We ran a series of workshops on bio-inspired robotics, aimed at children aged 7-14 years, over two the course of days (10-11 Feb), as part of the Brighton Science Festival. This event also provided ample opportunity to informally discuss the project with parents and other members of the public. Additionally, the event generated media coverage in the form of an interview with ITV news as part of an item about the science festival. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.brightonscience.com/events/bright-sparks-saturday-2018/ |
Description | Brighton Summit: local industry event. October 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Demonstration of insect-inspired navigation, by Andrew Philippides and Alex Dewar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | British Science Festival 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of the national British Science Festival, the Brains on Board team ran a public engagement event in a local pub. The event took place on 6 Sept 2017 over the course of an evening and featured stalls from a number of our researchers, which aimed to be fun and informative. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.britishsciencefestival.org/event/north-laine-brewhouse-getting-buzzed/ |
Description | Broadcast interview with Joanna Brebner on Times Radio |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Joanna Brebner was interviewed on Times Radio about her newly published research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | CBC News feature "Stopping killer robots before they get to us first" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | "James Marshall was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about Brains on Board's ethical manifesto, as part of the news feature "Stopping killer robots before they get to us first" 10th April 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7v_9jEotVI&feature=youtu.be |
Description | Cafe Scientifique talk October 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | James Marshall was invited to give a talk on "AI: Is it intelligent?" at the Cafe Scientifique in Sheffield (public science initiative) on 1st October 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/events/238498386954261/ |
Description | Catalan government AI funding report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I contributed to a report on AI funding for digital innovation hubs presented to the Barcelona Chamber of commerce and the Catalan Regional Government |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Commercial UAV Show, November 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Exhibition stand and three talks: Next Generation Autonomy - A Bio-Inspired Approach - "An overview of the Brains on Board research project", "A description of how insect-based vision is implemented for drone navigation and control", A bee in drone's clothing "Emulating honeybee flight on a quadrotor aircraft" (by James Marshall, Alex Cope and Fadl Isa) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/the-commercial-uav-show/speaker-jamesar-MARSHALL.stm |
Description | EMAEE conference, June 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Thomas Nowotny and Alex Dewar gave a short presentation and a robot demo for snapshot navigation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | EPSRC Programme Grant Workshop, July 2019. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participation in the EPSRC program grant workshop, oral presentation by James Marshall, poster by Thomas Nowotny. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Exhibit at AAAS 2020 International Reception hosted by UKRI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The project was invited by UKRI to showcase at their VIP International Reception, hosted as part of AAAS 2020 in Seattle, February 2020. James Marshall, Alex Cope, Jamie Knight and Joe Woodgate exhibited the project,providing an overview of the research and technology emerging from the project, and demonstrations of drone and ground-based robotics. This resulted in significant international media coverage of the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ukri.org/aaas/ |
Description | Feature in a student video (nominated for National award) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Neville Dearden (the project beekeeper) was filmed as part of the TV news documentary 'The decline of the great British bee' by Sheffield MA student Adam Smith. Shortlisted in the Postgraduate News category for the National RTS Student Television Awards 2020 (finals 26.06.2020) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Ci2hyKynw |
Description | Featured in BBC Click roundup 22.02.2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Project research featured briefly in the BBC Click technology roundup on 22.02.2020 (10 minutes in) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g3rs/click-saudi-cyber-security |
Description | Financial Times article following AAAS 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Financial Times published an article on the project 'Scientists look to bees to develop drone technology', on 17/02/2020, following on from us exhibiting at AAAS 2020 with URKI on 15/02/2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ft.com/content/bf3c83fe-5081-11ea-8841-482eed0038b1 |
Description | Giving a talk to the Somerset Beekeepers' Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Lars Chittka, investigator based at Queen Marys University London, gave a talk to the Somerset Beekeepers' Association. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Human Brain Project Exhibition at The Science Museum, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Exhibitions of innovations highlighting work from within and outside the Human Brain Project with series of talks about the exhibits and the challenges of turning science into innovation. Aim is to engage with people in the external community. Free public access to the afternoon exhibition. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | I was an invited lecturer in The National Cognitive Neuroscience Summer in Beijing Normal University, Beijing China and gave a research talk and demonstrations. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was an invited lecturer in The National Cognitive Neuroscience Summer in Beijing Normal University, Beijing China and gave a research talk and demonstrations: "Using Drosophila as a model system for cognitive neuroscience research: "Using Drosophila as a model system for cognitive neuroscience research". 17.07.2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | International Robotics Showcase 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Alex Cope and Fadl Isa demonstrated work from the project at the International Robotics Showcase, June 2019, to a varied audience of researchers, government, and school students |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ukras.org/robotics-week/showcase-event/ |
Description | Interview and Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Animals Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-202... |
Description | Interview and major article about my team's work in Dutch popular scientific magazine KIJK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A 7 page print article about me and my team's work about the intelligence of bees. Published November 2021, entitled: Bijenonderzoeker Lars Chittka: Ik wil dat meer mensen weten dat bijen een rijk mentaal leven hebben (I wish that more people were aware that bees have a rich mental life). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://tijdschriftnu.nl/products/kijk-editie-11-2021 |
Description | Interview for BBC World Service |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We participated in the BBC's CrowdScience programme, with many members of the team at the University of Sussex involved in the process, in the form of interviews and demonstrations of our research. The programme airs on the BBC World Service and is also available as a popular podcast. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswc8z |
Description | Interview for local news |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | During British Science Week 2017, Latest TV (local television for the Brighton and Hove area) featured daily interviews with scientists about their research to be aired during their main news programme. One of these days featured interviews with researchers at the University of Sussex, including an interview with a member of the Brains on Board team on the topic of insect-inspired robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQc8iEFWZZ0 |
Description | Interview in BYU Radio "Constant Wonder: Smart Bees" (aired 30/3/2020: 50 minutes) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was a radio interview and as such was for general audiences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://byuradiostage.byu.edu/episode/bd8dc260-e7b0-44ce-a3bb-a7d613d49c55/constant-wonder-smart-bees |
Description | Interview on Big Biology podcast "Smarthropods - Cognition in Insects" (37 minutes) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was an audio interview for a very prestigious and popular channel. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/smarthropods-cognition-in-insects-ep-46/id1321630019?i=1000489... |
Description | Interview with Sky News following AAAS 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | James Marshall was interviewed about the project by Sky News on 18/02/2020, following on the project exhibiting with UKRI at AAAS 2020, 15/02/2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Invited keynote at Kongsberg Systems engineering symposium, Norway |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Andrew Philippides was the invited keynote speaker at Kongsberg Systems engineering symposium, Norway, 20 June 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited speaker at HBP Innovation Day: Neuroscience-driven Innovation and the Path Forward in AI and Robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This one-day event aimed to sensitize engineers and researchers working in the industry to the potential for innovation coming from neuroscience in general and from the Human Brain Project (HBP) in particular. It was intended to stimulate a technically-inclined audience and make them aware of the many unique and untapped possibilities to apply neuroscientific knowledge to their own field. James Knight was invited to give a talk on Brains-on-board and insect-inspired robotics in general. As well as generally engaging with the business community, discussions after this event led to an invite for representatives of the project to the HBP Innovation Forum and Exhibition in London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/events/hbp-innovation-day-neuroscience-driven-innovat... |
Description | Invited talk at ARM (Cambridge) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Thomas Nowotny gave a talk on GeNN and had some individual discussions with ARM developers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited talk at Central Association of Bee Keepers Annual Conference 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | HaDi MaBoudi gave an invited talk on bee cognition and how our understanding of bees' behaviour helps us to create the future of AI. 16 November 2019. Also producing an information booklet for beekeepers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.cabk.org.uk/event/autumn-conference-2019/ |
Description | Invited talk at EFBKA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Title: Are bees intelligent? I presented several experimental and computational evidence to answer whether bees are intelligent for the beekeepers at EFBK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited talk at Mass Robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at Mass Robotics inaugural RoboXChange talk series, presenting project spinout Opteran to industry and media in the Boston area, and wider |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_4jGsNCQY&t=2547s |
Description | Invited talk at the IET East Midlands Network, July 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited talk by Fadl Isa - presentation on the Brains on Board project '"Guided by Bees: Biologically-Inspired Navigation and Control" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://communities.theiet.org/communities/events/item/168/77/23476 |
Description | Invited talk for IPAB Seminar at the University of Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion of work, with further discussions to follow potentially leading to collaboration opportunities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited talk: "How photomechanical photoreceptor microsaccades improve insect vision" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I gave an invited research talk for over 500 researchers at Neurofly (the 17th European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference), Krakow, Poland. (05.09.2018). The audience was excited about my research findings, and the discussions carried on long after my talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://neurofly2018.pl/gb/ |
Description | Invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 16.03.2019. Technical University of Hefei, China. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 25 Scientists attended my invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 16.03.2019. Technical University of Hefei, China. This lead to lively discussions and planned collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 19.12.2019. Harbin University of Technology, Harbin, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 200 people attended my talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 19.12.2019. Harbin University of Technology, Harbin, China. This led to a lively discussion and plans to collaborate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://rwxy.hit.edu.cn/2019/1217/c6938a234766/page.htm |
Description | Invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 23.05.2019. Fudan University (Engineering), Shanghai, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 150 people attended my invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 23.05.2019. Fudan University, Shanghai, China. This led to lively discussions and plans for future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 27.09.2019. Fudan University (Biology), Shanghai, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 50 scientists attended my talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 27.09.2019. Fudan University (Biology), Shanghai, China. THis led to lively discussions and plans to collaborate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster." 09.08.2019. International Conference on Invertebrate Vision, Bäckaskog Castle, Lund, Sweden |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | ~350 scientists attended my talk "Hyperacute stereovision in fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster." 09.08.2019. International Conference on Invertebrate Vision, Bäckaskog Castle, Lund, Sweden. The talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.iciv.se/ |
Description | Invited talk: How to sample a reliable neural estimate of the variable world? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 70 scientists attended for "Multimodal sensory transduction in insect neurons symposium" at the Physiological Society, London, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, and the participants reported changing their viewpoints about insect vision/perception as stimulated by my new research findings. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited talk: Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I gave an invited research talk in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong, China (17.02.2019). The audience was excited about my research findings, and the discussions carried on long after my talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.psychology.hku.hk/uploads/seminar/20190218_Professor_Mikko_Juusola.pdf |
Description | Invited talk: Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster. 25.09.2019. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 25 people attended my invited talk: "Hyperacute stereovision in Fruit fly, Drosophila melangaster." 25.09.2019. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. This led to lively discussions and plans for collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Italy RAI 2 Television programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Section on BoB (QMUL and Sheffield) in 'Indovina Chi Viene A Cena' - an investigative TV programme where this episode they were looking at the decline of the honeybee population. Featured Alex Cope, Joe Woodgate, Eleni Vasilaki. 04/11/2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/IndovinaChiVieneACenaRai3/videos/943687835839608?t=700 |
Description | James Marshall interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | James Marshall interviewed live on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n8cp |
Description | Joe Woodgate profiled in short film for UKRI website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UKRI runs the 101 jobs campaign to highlight some of the many roles that contribute to the success of the research and innovation system. Joe Woodgate was featured in a video profile explaining his research as a part of this initiative. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://www.ukri.org/our-work/101-jobs-that-change-the-world/video-joe-woodgate/ |
Description | Joe Woodgate & the harmonic radar featured in "Show Me The Honey", CBBC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Joe Woodgate & the harmonic radar featured in "Show Me The Honey". This was a 7 part CBBC series about beekeeping, aimed at school children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2021/39/show-me-the-honey/ |
Description | Joe Woodgate and the harmonic radar project featured in Jimmy's Big Bee Rescue (Channel 4) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Joe Woodgate, Joanna Brebner and the harmonic radar project featured in Jimmy's Big Bee Rescue (Channel 4) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jimmys-big-bee-rescue/on-demand/68580-002 |
Description | KTN Connected Autonomous Vehicles & Nature Inspired Systems SIG Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Industry showcase event; exhibition stand and invited talk by James Marshall. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Lewes SEM Fair 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Event for children/pupils to get them interested in STEM fields, Bee VR & Ant simulation, 28/04/2018 - James and Fabian from University of Sussex |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Lewes STEM Fair 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Outreach STEM fair for children and teenagers, project demo by Fabian Steinbeck and Stefan Meyer. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.stemfest.co.uk/stemfests/lewes-stemfest |
Description | Lewes STEM fair |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We participated in the Lewes STEM Fair (part of Lewes STEMfest 2017), running a stall with a few demonstrations for the Brains on Board project. The event is popular and attracted around 765 visitors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.stemfest.co.uk/stemfests/lewes-stemfest |
Description | MM gave keynote talk at UKRAS 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented natural intelligence approach as an alternative to AI to 300+ robotics reserachers, industry, funders, policymakers etc at the IEEE UKRAS conference 2024. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldrobotics/7th-ieee-uk-ireland-ras-conference-ras-2024#:~:text=Ta... |
Description | MM gave talk at European Robotics Forum - Bioinspired Robotics Topic Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gave a presentation about natural intelligence approach at the European Robotics Forum topic group session on bioinspired robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://erf2023.sdu.dk/ |
Description | MM organised 1st workshop on small animal tracking. AP and JK gave talks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop bringing together researchers, students, research software engineer and businesses interested small animal tracking from across the EU. Multiple follow on funding and outreach activities discussed and to follow. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Media Interviews related to my article entitled "The secret life of bees as horticulturists?" - in The Times (and other outlets) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | My article in Science magazine prompted many global media enquiries, most notably in The Times (URL see below), but also in Mail online, Daily Express, Der Tagesspiegel and NPR (National Public Radio, USA). I have had several communications from the general public that these findings have changed their views on the complexity of bee behaviour. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-starving-bumblebees-make-plants-flower-hcn9gdlgn |
Description | Media coverage in 'The Register' of James Knight's newly-published paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Media coverage in 'The Register' of James Knight's newly-published paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/video_games_srs_business/ |
Description | Media coverage in the i-news of a recently published paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Media coverage in the i-news of a recently published paper by James Knight. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/researchers-monkey-brain-simulation-supercomputers-commercial-pc... |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Media coverage of a newly released paper by project member, James Knight. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266304-video-game-graphics-cards-can-simulate-monkey-brains-on... |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Media coverage in Indian of project member HaDi MaBouDi's newly-published paper regarding mathematical ability of bees |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_link... |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Media coverage of HaDi MaBouDi's newly-published paper about the honeybees solving maths problems. Readers of the IFLS facebook group re-shared the article 1.9k times. Although there were only 10 retweets of the article on twitter, the twitter profile has 221,000 followers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/turns-out-bees-were-cheating-when-they-convinced-us-th... |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Media coverage of project member HaDi MaBouDi's newly-published paper regarding the mathematical abilities of honey bees |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bees-maths-test-puzzle-study-b1803450.html |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Media coverage of newly-published paper by project member HaDi MaBouDi "Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theengineer.co.uk/honeybees-can-solve-maths-tests-without-using-numbers/ |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Media coverage in Indian of project member HaDi MaBouDi's newly-published paper regarding mathematical ability of bees |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/2021/02/18/honeybees-solve-math-puzzles/?utm_source=nyoooz&utm_me... |
Description | Media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Media coverage in the Indian press about project member HaDi MaBouDi's recently published paper regarding the mathematical abilities of the honey bee. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nyoooz.com/news/chennai/1552154/honeybees-solve-math-puzzles-news-today/ |
Description | Mike Mangan gave a talk at the UAS Drone Networking Workshop at Thales in June 2018 (industry) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The event's intent is to bring together UAS/Drone related projects that have been funded by Innovate UK, EPSRC and other organizations, so that you will: · present your work in a broader knowledgeable audience · learn what others in the field/domain are working on in UK · be able to network with other organizations working on the same area · explore/identify areas/topics for possible future activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | NATO Autonomy Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Four members of the project team (James Marshall, Alex Cope, Joe Woodgate & Jamie Knight) attended as invited speakers and panellists on a workshop provided by NATO. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | NHK (Japanese equivalent to BBC) visited the Juusola laboratory filming about visual capabilities of flies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | NHK (Japanese equivalent to BBC) visited the Juusola laboratory (23 Feb 2022) in filming a documentary about Miyamoto Musashi (a well-known 16th-century Samurai warrior), who could capture houseflies with chopsticks. Besides interviewing Prof Juusola about the ultrafast fly vision, the Juusola Laboratory performed advanced in vivo intracellular electrophysiology, the fly eye and brain imaging and virtual reality experiments using behaving flies to show what kind of superior visual abilities Musashi was fighting against. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Named Lecture: The Baerends Lecture at the Dutch Behavioural Biology annual conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Named Lecture: A plenary talk by Lars Chittka to The Baerends Lecture at the Dutch Behavioural Biology annual conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Named Lecture: The Tinbergen Lecture at the ASAB Winter Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Named Lecture: Plenary talk given by Lars Chittka to The Tinbergen Lecture at the ASAB Winter Meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Nature Inspired Solutions KTN special interest group launch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Andrew Philippides and James Knight invited to speak at the launch of this KTN special interest group, as well a demo of project research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Nerd Nite Brighton, September 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public lecture to an audience of about 60 people, 20/09/2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | New Scientist Comment by Prof. James Marshall |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Comment piece in the 'Life' section of the publication by Prof' James Marshall. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933220-100-insect-brains-will-teach-us-how-to-make-truly-in... |
Description | New Scientist article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | New Scientist article arguing for a new approach to AI based in insect brain biomimicry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921002797 |
Description | New Scientist article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | New Scientist article in response to 'Larger GPU-accelerated brain simulations with procedural connectivity' paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266304-video-game-graphics-cards-can-simulate-monkey-brains-on... |
Description | Newspaper article in NZZ (Neue Zuricher Zeitung) about our article in Science Magazine about African American psychologist Charles Turner, 31/10/2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was an interview with a Swiss journalist and the resulting article appeared in a major Swiss newspaper. It was about the work and life of nearly-forgotten African-American scientist Charles Turner, who made important contributions to insect learning. The impact is not known, but it is hoped that it changes people's views and brings attention to the works of this particular scholar, and more generally about the often-neglected contributions of ethnic minority scholars. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://nzzas.nzz.ch/wissen/charles-h-turner-ein-schwarzer-forscher-im-abseits-ld.1584498?reduced=tr... |
Description | Newspaper article in leading French newspaper Le Monde, about our Science article about Charles Turner |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by a French journalist about an article I had written for Science Magazine, about the life and science of African-American scientist Charles Turner. This resulted in a major newspaper article in French newspaper Le Monde. The impact is not directly known, but it is hoped that it changes people's views about the often-neglected major contributions to science by ethnic minority scholars. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2020/12/12/charles-turner-pionnier-noir-oublie-de-la-cogniti... |
Description | PIP talk on AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a public engagement talk on the imapct of AI to a (mainly local) group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Pocket Science Fair, November 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Bee VR demo, by Stefan Meyer and Norbert Domcsek. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.brightonscience.com/events/pocket-science-funfair-2019-11-01/ |
Description | Popular science article in 'Navigation News' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | James Knight co-wrote the popular science article "Insect Navigation: From Ants to Robots and Back Again", In Navigation News (Royal Institute of Navigation), March/April 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Poster at The Commercial UAV Show 2018 - New Applications & Opportunities for UAVs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Brains on Board Project poster presented by Fadl Isa, in the Poster Zone of the Exhibition. 14th November 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/the-commercial-uav-show/index.stm |
Description | Presentation at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2020 Austin Texas |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Lars Chittka was invited to present at a conference for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Austin, Texas, USA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation at the University of Bedfordshire Psychology Department |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Lars Chittka was invited to present at a conference at the University of Bedfordshire Psychology Department |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation for the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, entitled "The Mind of the Bee" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was a presentation to general audiences about our research on information processing in the bee brain. It comprised 45 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of questions and discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB4CJrAGnA0 |
Description | Presentation to the Somerset Beekeepers' Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Chittka's research (and Brains on Board more generally) about the psychology of bees and its engineering applications to approx. 400 professional and hobby beekeepers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.somersetbeekeepers.org.uk/members-blog/sbka-lecture-day-feb-15-2020 |
Description | Project Showcase in Science Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Project Showcase highlighting outputs from the project, including robot demonstrations, and project spinout Opteran |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://brainsonboard.co.uk/2021/12/08/brains-on-board-showcase-at-the-science-museum/ |
Description | QUANTA magazine article on olfaction inspired AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | QUANTA magazine article on olfaction inspired AI "New AI Strategy Mimics How Brains Learn to Smell" 18/09/2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-ai-strategy-mimics-how-brains-learn-to-smell-20180918/ |
Description | Radio Show discussion of the future of robotics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Andy Philippidies took part in a discussion on the future of robotics on the Danny Pike Radio show, 25/01/2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06w8csf |
Description | Radio interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A one-hour live radio interview about insect behaviour with an estimated 300,000 listeners |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/overnights/cockroaches/13742526 |
Description | Radio media coverage of newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Local radio (BBC Radio Sheffield) media coverage of a newly-published paper by HaDi MaBouDi. The show was aired at primetime (17:20). Exact listening figures are not known, but the radio station has a reach of 149,000 listeners per week. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Report on Polish TV - TVN24: Drones are supposed to be like bees. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Report on Polish TV - TVN24: Drones are supposed to be like bees. Researchers in the UK want to copy the brain functions of bees and use them in flying machines. They are to be as intelligent and useful as insects and also as autonomous. (http://www.tvn24.pl) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Research highlighted in Digital Trends Magazine article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interviewed for article in digital trends magazine about bio-inspired algorithms, May 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ant-inspired-gps-navigation/ |
Description | Response to The Irish Sun article on violence towards robots |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Andy Philippides commented on a news article published about violence towards robots. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thesun.ie/news/3666983/people-are-brutally-attacking-robots-from-sex-dolls-to-self-drive... |
Description | Reuters news feature: "Autonomous bee brain-inspired UAV could revolutionise drone tech" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | News feature by Reuters: "Autonomous bee brain-inspired UAV could revolutionise drone tech", involving Andy Philippides and Alex Dewar. The longform version was used by 5 broadcast channels. Shown in Czech Republic, Italy, and three US channels, including CNN. The online version would have been used on up to 60 news website globally. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://mobile.reuters.com/video/2018/06/05/autonomous-bee-brain-inspired-uav-could?videoId=43315694... |
Description | Reviewing plans for honey bee breeding in Sheffield and Rotherham associations and University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The project beekeeper was revisiting plans for honey bee breeding in Sheffield and Rotherham associations and University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Robot demo for international visitors |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | General robot demo and detailed discussion, with several visitors from international businesses, November 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Robot demo for local business |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Demonstration of insect inspired navigation with wheeled robot and drone, by Alex Dewar, Jamie Knight, Efstathios Kagioulis and Thomas Nowotny to visitors from a local business. October 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Robot demo for visitors from international business |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Demonstration of insect inspired navigation with wheeled robot and drone, by Alex Dewar, Efstathios Kagioulis and Thomas Nowotny, October 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Robotics and AI Showcase (KTN) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Alex Cope and James Marshall exhibited the project at the industry showcase event. 12 March 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/highlights-from-the-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-industry-showcase |
Description | STEM Ambassador workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | James Bennett, University of Sussex, demonstrated several public engagement activities related to sensory perception, cognition, and computational principles of brain function. 14/11/2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Science for Progress podcast 09/04/2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Andrew Philippides and Thomas Nowotny invited to discuss: "Brexit: Its Impacts on Science and Scientists" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.scienceforprogress.eu/24-brexit-its-impacts-on-science-and-scientists-bd-with-guests/ |
Description | Scientific interview about face recognition by insects |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Like humans, wasps seem to recognize faces as more than the sum of their parts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-wasps-seem-recognize-faces-more-sum-their-parts |
Description | Sheffield Robotics showcase event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk and demos throughout the day on biomimetic UAV controllers. Monday 25th June 2018. Research showcase event for members of Sheffield Robotics from Univeristy of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, as well as external partners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Speaker at 60 years of Sussex Research Partnership Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was selected to present the research of Brains on Board and ActiveAI as part of the 60 years of Sussex Research Partnership Conference to highlight academice partnerships |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/60-years-of-sussex/news-and-events?id=57433 |
Description | Sussex Community Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BeABee VR demo by James Knight, James Bennett and Paul Graham. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Sussex Community Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | "Odor objects and Brains on Board" public lecture by Thomas Nowotny |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Sydney Morning Herald article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Media coverage of AI and 'natural intelligence' mentions the project and project spinout Opteran. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.smh.com.au/national/die-as-a-human-or-live-forever-as-a-cyborg-will-robots-rule-the-worl... |
Description | Talk and panel discussion, IFRA Fragrance Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Thomas Nowotny gave a talk on insect olfaction and bio-inspired AI, and was also a panel member in the final panel discussion. October 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Talk titled: "Seeing the world through moving photoreceptors" given in German Electron Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave an invited video talk for scientists engaged in physics research using the German synchrotron, DESY. The talk sparked many questions with a lively discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Templeton Foundation outreach video |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Public outreach video, 'The Honeybee Brain', featuring Andrew Barron and James Marshall. July 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=N_wei1OdK0E&feature=emb_logo |
Description | The One Show feature on bee radar tracking, BBC One, 06.03.2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The One Show broadcast a feature on some of the project's bee radar tracking research, featuring Joe Woodgate and Joanna Brebner. Broadcast on 06.03.2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | UKRI film on project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | UKRI film on project outcomes |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ukri.org/our-work/how-we-work-in-ai/examples-from-ukris-ai-investment-portfolio/learning... |
Description | UKRI-BBSRC Expert Working Group on the Use of Models in research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I was a member of the UKRI-BBSRC Expert Working Group on the Use of Models in research. We debated the subject which was made into a report which we fed back one |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | University of Sussex undergraduate Open Day 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Bee eye on robot demo to prospective undergraduate students and families, by James Knight and James Bennett, 24/06/2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Virtual Insect Navigation Workshop Aug 4th-6th |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the Virtual Insect Navigation Workshop Aug 4th-6th |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Virtual insect navigation workshop, Aug 2020 entitled "Computational analysis of bees' flight paths". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | HaDi MaBouDi presented at the Virtual insect navigation workshop, Aug 2020 entitled "Computational analysis of bees' flight paths". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Virtual insect navigation workshop, Aug 2020 entitled "Line following in bumblebees". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Project member Joanna Brebner attended a virtual insect navigation workshop, Aug 2020 entitled "Line following in bumblebees". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Visit of representative of German Chancellory, November 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Thomas Nowotny, Alex Dewar and Efstathios Kagioulis provided drone demos and discussion for visitors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit to University of Sussex by Network Rail, September 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Demonstration of insect-inspired navigation, by Andrew Philippides and Alex Dewar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop on Animal Mind |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Animal Mind: Miniature Copies of Cognition to Implement in Artificial Intelligence The workshop was organised by the University of Sheffield and the Institute for Fundamental Sciences (IPM) for the Iranian audiences in Iran to introduce animal cognition with applications in Robotic and AI. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://scs.ipm.ac.ir/new/AnimalMindWorkshop.jsp |
Description | World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series Youtube talk - 01/08/2022 by Prof. Mikko Juusola |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | AS of 15th Feb 2023, this Youtube general neuroscience talk has had 1,728 views. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRGvwi4quU |
Description | ZDNet article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | ZDNet article in response to 'Larger GPU-accelerated brain simulations with procedural connectivity' paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.zdnet.com/article/who-needs-a-supercomputer-your-desktop-pc-and-a-gpu-might-be-enough-to... |
Description | iNews article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | New Scientist article in response to 'Larger GPU-accelerated brain simulations with procedural connectivity' paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/researchers-monkey-brain-simulation-supercomputers-commercial-pc... |
Description | work featured on Youtube on scishow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | My bumblebee research was focussed on in an episode of Scishow on Youtube |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIPe3Ya8y0 |