Excited to be featured on this week’s @bbcclick If you have access to BBC iPlayer our clip starts at 20 minutes 55 secs and features Opteran Green Hornet our aerial #drone platform. You can watch it on BBC World News in US and Latin America 👇 bbc.in/3IOPMNz #uavs

Studentship available at University of Sussex with Jamie Knight on exciting AI topic. You will study along our be.AI scholars (sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai). OCNS INCF Human Brain Project Brains on Board

Stuck for a last-minute Christmas present? Just give a voucher, and the present will arrive in time for the bee season next year :-) amazon.com/Mind-Bee-Lars-…

Happy to see the proofs for my book The Mind of a Bee, out at Princeton University Press 5 months from today

'Banned' bee-harming pesticide approved for use, despite expert advice bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-…

Did you know there are over 20,000 species of bee in the world!?

For over a century, it was thought that insect vision is lo-res, based solely on eye optics. But it turns out that insects have extremely sophisticated tricks to get around this; wonderful work by Joni Kemppainen, Mikko Juusola and team Brains on Board pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

PhD opportunity in excellent lab: Revealing the visual encodings used for navigation by foraging insects findaphd.com/phds/project/r…

WIRED: Opteran featured in a new WIRED report covering six key technologies to change the world. See us in the chapter on Biomimicry! loom.ly/-UpKGuQ #biomimicry #artificialintelliegence #drones #robotics #uavs #naturalintelligence #opterantechnology #SLAM

This week project PI James Marshall, and co-founder of project spinout Opteran Technologies, co-authored an article on the Brains on Board approach in Science Robotics with colleagues MAVLab - TU Delft and Sawyer B Fuller

So proud of project spinout Opteran Technologies taking project research out into the real world…

Don't Miss: Lars Chittka reveals the surprisingly clever mind of a bee newscientist.com/article/mg2543…

British startup Opteran Technologies is reverse-engineering insect brains to design extremely efficient navigation and collision avoidance algorithms for robots and drones. They have working demos too: #neuromorphic #braininspired eetimes.com/reverse-engine…

At the Embedded Vision Summit the panel of experts I moderated had different ideas on exactly how closely we should be copying biological systems for computing and vision. Featuring @PerceiveIO, Intel, Opteran Technologies and Ryad Benosman. #neuromorphic eetimes.com/inspiration-or…

our study unveils fascinating insights into bee decision-making The University of Sheffield Sheffield Comp Sci Opteran Technologies Science at Sheffield James Marshall Smart as a bee elifesciences.org/digests/86176/…

Opteran Technologies Chief Scientific Officer & co-founder Prof. James Marshall on BBC Radio 4 Today programme talking about his research with Dr. HaDi MaBouDi and Prof. Andrew Barron on the decision making of bees. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… (scan to 1:25:36)#robotics #naturalintelligence #AI