Senses in the news:
- This seems too good to be true:
- But apparently it is true. See this paper and this blog post.
- If you're lucky enough to have eyes, here's a good analysis of how all your visual inputs get put together into a single representation.
- For robots, a sense of smell is important, too.
- The next robotic challenge: door-to-door combat operations.
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Remarkable. See also Brice Mellen.
Yeah, that is really impressive, though I'd like to see some scientists taking a good look at what that kid does (it'd be interesting to see how much of his visual cortex has been taken over by his auditory system, too).
And the paper on cogprints is more than iffy.