{"id":94450,"date":"2019-08-05T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/could-rat-brains-hold-the-secret-to-robots-with-better-navigational-skills"},"modified":"2019-08-05T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:42:27","slug":"could-rat-brains-hold-the-secret-to-robots-with-better-navigational-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/could-rat-brains-hold-the-secret-to-robots-with-better-navigational-skills","title":{"rendered":"Could Rat Brains Hold the Secret to Robots with Better Navigational Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-rat-brains-hold-the-secret-to-robots-with-better-navigational-skills2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BU researchers have discovered specialized brain cells that provide rats\u2014and most likely, humans\u2014 with personalized maps of their surroundings, helping them navigate through obstacles. The findings could lead to improved autonomous vehicles that can navigate unpredictable and dynamic terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU researchers have discovered specialized brain cells that provide rats\u2014and most likely, humans\u2014 with personalized maps of their surroundings, helping them navigate through obstacles. The findings could lead to improved autonomous vehicles that can navigate unpredictable and dynamic terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}