The Higgins Laboratory
From brains to robots, and everything in between.

Robotic dragonfly

Blog entries

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 16:43

Here's a pretty awesome robotic dragonfly. What if we attached a real dragonfly brain to a dragonfly robot? Maybe we could make a supersonic dragonfly...is that good or bad for mankind? ;)

2019

Oct 31 2019 - "Evaluation of an Automatic Sleep Scoring Algorithm in MATLAB" by Jordan Green (Theses)

2014

Aug 26 2014 - "A visual motion detecting module for dragonfly-controlled robots" by Thuy Pham and Charles M. Higgins (Conference papers)
Feb 07 2014 - "Higgins part of the "Nifty Fifty" for 2014" (Public lectures)
Feb 07 2014 - "Higgins part of the "Nifty Fifty" for 2014" (Blog entries)

2013

Nov 09 2013 - "Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate" (Blog entries)
Jun 01 2013 - "Neuroscience from Bugs and Bots" by Lee Allen, Desert Leaf Magazine (Magazines)

2012

Nov 12 2012 - "Higgins part of the "Nifty Fifty" for 2012" (Public lectures)
Nov 12 2012 - "Higgins part of the "Nifty Fifty" for 2012" (Blog entries)
Oct 23 2012 - "Watch out for your finger!" (Videos)
Apr 25 2012 - "UA Neuroscientist to Share Love of Robotics With Kids" by Mari Jensen, UANews (Newspapers)

2011

Dec 18 2011 - "A real-time neural signal processing system for dragonflies" by Thuy Pham (Theses)

2010

Nov 14 2010 - "Living insects become 'eyes' for robots" by Charles M. Higgins, Arizona Daily Star (Newspapers)

2009

Aug 19 2009 - "Dragonfly brain recordings" (Videos)

2008

Mar 29 2008 - "The Brain-Machine Interface" (Videos)
Mar 08 2008 - "Cyborg insects" (Videos)

2007

Dec 03 2007 - "Scientist: 'Hybrid' computers will meld living brains with technology" by Sharon Gaudin, Computer World Magazine (Magazines)

2005

Aug 18 2005 - "A Robotic Implementation of Insect Target-Tracking Algorithms" by Leslie I. Ortiz and C. M. Higgins (Conference abstracts)

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The Higgins Laboratory From brains to robots, and everything in between.