Scientists created artificial intelligence and locust antennas to give robots a sense smell.

In 2023, cameras and microphones will surpass the capabilities of sight and voice. Despite all the technological advances, humans have not been able build a better nose. Evolution has had millions upon millions of years to perfect the smell-sensing receptors that humans, animals, measles, and animals use to detect odors. However, scientists have made some significant progress with the help from nature.

A study published Monday in the journal Biosensor and BioelectronicsA group of researchers at Tel Aviv University (trans They recently developed a robot that recognizes a few odors with 10,000x greater sensitivity than other electronic devices. They call their robot a hybrid biological platform (read cyborg). It includes an array of antennae that were taken from a It is connected with an electronic system that measures how much electrical signal the antennas produce in response to detecting a scent. The robot was paired with an algorithm that could distinguish different odors by its signal output. This allowed the team to create a system that could distinguish between eight “pure”, such as geranium and lemon, and two blends. Scientists believe that the robot could be used to detect explosives and drugs.

A YouTube video by Tel Aviv University claims that the robot is a “scientific breakthrough.” However, researchers at Michigan State University published a paper last June detailing a system that uses surgically altered locusts. . 2016 was also a year when scientists attempted to transform locusts. Its a bomb sniffing cyborg. I can only say that pests may finally be beneficial after thousands of years of crop failures.