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SUMMARY:Where Angels Fear to Tread: Extreme Environments and Extreme Passa
 ge Times - Matthew  Fricke (The University of New Mexico)
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DESCRIPTION:Bridging the reality-gap and designing robots that can work in
  natural environments is a critical challenge. Over the past decade we hav
 e taken inspiration from eusocial insects to develop robot teams that can 
 collaboratively solve foraging problems in the real world. This talk cover
 s some theoretical results and examples of field deployment in the context
  of extreme environments where robots are not only beneficial but required
  to make progress: 1) The Moon and Mars colonisation initiatives\, 2) Meas
 uring and collecting carbon-dioxide emissions from actively erupting volca
 nos\, and 3) Collaborative transport of radioactive containers. I will als
 o present our recent work on scalability of the mammalian immune system th
 at results from extreme first-passage analysis for biologically realistic 
 numbers of cells. The interest of Computer Scientists and Roboticists in b
 iological movement patterns is in how we can co-opt them for our own needs
  and design efficient algorithms\, but as robots become more sophisticated
  and interact with complex nature environments they become more difficult 
 to predict and the line between biology and bioinspired blurs. Conversely\
 , there appear to be examples where apparently complex biological phenomin
 a can be approached with realtively simple theory.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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