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DARPA Is Looking at Insect Brains to Build Conscious Robots

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new program that aims to study the brains of insects to create conscious robots. The program comes under the agency’s broader US$2 billion Artificial Intelligence project unveiled last year that plans on creating “third wave” AI. Insect-inspired AI “Nature has forced on these small insects ...

Jack Roberts

A bumblebee on a flower.