Engineers in Germany have been studying human brain activity to improve the way moving robots avoid obstacles. Watch our exclusive video above to see the system in action.
The team at Ulm University lead by Heiko Neumann and Cornelia Beck analysed how human brains respond to visual information as they move around, and designed software that does the same thing for a wheeled robot with a human-like head with two cameras for eyes.
The robot head was built at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy. When it is using the new brain-inspired software, the robot chooses similar paths to humans around obstacles. It could help create systems that can guide visually-impaired people and eventually help robots make their way through cluttered environments as well as we do.
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