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Science Corner: Which bird gets the LEGO worm?

November 19, 2014 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

Microscope image of C elegans worm

The tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans has been a boon to science. Adult worms have a consistent number of cells, and we have been able to work out where each one comes from during the developmental process. They also have a consistent set of neurons, and the way that they connect to each other has been mapped out as well. So, naturally, someone reproduced those connections in a software simulation and got that running on a LEGO Mindstorm robot kit. The robot sensors were set up to correspond to certain sensory inputs on … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Which bird gets the LEGO worm?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science Tagged With: artificial intelligence, c elegans, lego, science corner

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