Understanding How Flies Integrate Multiple Sensory Cues Could Lead To Smarter Robots

To a fruit fly, a piece of rotting fruit or the food in your picnic basket is a little slice of heaven. It’s where the tiny animal - not much more than a speck on your fingertip can find food and a mate, the two passions of its short, two-month lifespan.But the odor plume of a food source can be very slight, subject to the vagaries of wind and other weather, in a world that looms large to this tiny bug. Yet the fly is uncanny in finding a meal.

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on February 19th, 2008