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As if 2020 wasn’t already bad enough, the US now has another problem to deal with: a terrifying monster insect nicknamed the “murder hornet”.

Officially called the Asian giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia, the huge insects have been spotted in the US for the first time in recent months, appearing in Washington state, the state’s Department of Agriculture says.

The hornets, which are over two inches long, were first spotted in the state in December last year, and generally become active in the spring, researchers from Washington State University said in a post published in early April.

This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just… works! Here’s what this could mean for the future of AI.

This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts — https://youtu.be/yxUkUaV2VPs

Thumbnail image courtesy of OpenWorm, Wormbase, and Caltech.

Scientists Put a Worm Brain in a Lego Robot Body — And It Worked
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-worm-brain-in-leg…connectome
“The ultimate goal of the project was to completely replicate C. elegans as a virtual organism. But as an amazing starting point, they managed to simulate its brain, and then they uploaded that into a simple Lego robot.”

These Robots Merge Their Nervous Systems Into a Single Megabot
https://www.seeker.com/tech/robotics/these-robots-merge-thei…le-megabot
“A group of small robots have taken teamwork to the next level, physically connecting and merging their nervous systems to become a single megabot with one “brain.” Researchers describe the robots and their “mergeable nervous system” in a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Communications.”

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