{"id":569396,"date":"2026-05-06T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569396\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:49:14","slug":"sheffield-researchers-say-insect-brains-could-transform-ai-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569396\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield researchers say insect brains could transform AI technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study, published in Nature Communications, found that when an insect makes a sharp turn, its brain &#8220;jumps&#8221; into a higher gear, said Juusola, which allows it to focus on the most important, fast-moving information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This mechanism enables insects to overcome physical and neural constraints that would otherwise limit their perception and supports behaviours such as high-speed flight and predator avoidance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juusola, who is the senior author of the study, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve demonstrated how even the smallest brains can solve complex problems at extraordinary speeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Future AI systems &#8211; particularly those used in robotics, autonomous vehicles and real-time decision-making &#8211; could be revolutionised by adopting similar principles of movement-driven, adaptive information processing, said Dr Jouni Takalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Takalo, who led the development of the biophysically realistic statistical model underlying the work, said: &#8220;The findings challenge traditional models of neural processing, which assume that information flows through fixed pathways with built-in delays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Instead, the results support a new framework where sight is a collective effort between an insect&#8217;s movement, its visual input and its brain&#8217;s response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study, published in Nature Communications, found that when an insect makes a sharp turn, its brain &#8220;jumps&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-569396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}