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  • Simulated brain cells give robot instinctive navigation skills

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    10.21.2015

    A team of researchers at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) announced on Wednesday that they had taught a robot how to navigate on its own, in much the same way that humans and other animals do. They reportedly accomplished this feat by digitally replicating two types of neurons that help animals geolocate naturally.