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UQ's iRats have brains that map their own world - they don't need GPS. They make dates with each other - well, they can agree to meet somewhere after they map their world. And they are able to interact with people via mobile phones. Curiosity is a good thing discovered a couple of Year 2 students from Sherwood State Primary School who heard UQ research fellow Dr Daniel Angus and speculative fiction author-scientist Charlotte Nash on the topic,…
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Dr Daniel Angus explains how he is analyzes communication of ideas to see how close people's thoughts are positioned in a "conceptual space". If they are close then there is good communication. If their ideas are far away from each other then they are not understanding each other very well at all. He is on the University of Queensland team which is building robots called iRats or Lingo Droids that talk to each other and learn to navigate using…
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Ants know the quickest way to get to where they want to go through a complicated network. This is why scientists, such as Dr Dan Angus, study nature to find solutions to difficult problems in our everyday lives - like getting the trains to run on time.
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Scientists study bees to learn better ways to organize and pack shipping containers. It's a problem if you like your internet shopping delivered to your door on time, explains UQ researcher, Dr Dan Angus. Read the Big Science Now blog post: http://bigsciencenow.com/71066112
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Charlotte Nash-Stewart is a doctor, engineer and Science Fiction writer. She loves science - all science - so much that she could not choose just one science so she decided to become a writer so she could study ALL science! Charlotte has degrees in mechanical and space engineering, medicine, writing, editing and publishing. Her stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Every Day Fiction, and her sci-fi manuscript The Q…
Does Sci-Fi Inspire Science? Brisbane Ekka talk 2011
Dr Dan Angus, a UQ Research Fellow, and Charlotte Nash, a Speculative Fiction writer and scientist, spoke at the National Science Week Ekka Pavilion about whether Science Fiction inspires Science on People's Day. The verdict was yes, it does!
They covered a lot of ground, with some good questions from compere Carl Smith, such as will brain implants ever allow us to communicate with the TV without a remote (See the Questions
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