The advancement of technology has been truly impressive, with new techniques being developed for application in different areas of knowledge, increasing our possibilities for evolution.
Artificial intelligence can now perform previously impossible tasks, creating images, music and improving through learning.
Not only are AIs well developed and used as software, but they can be incorporated into hardware that develops and enhances the machine’s experience of interacting with the outside world.
Several robots have already been created with surprising physical attributes, but a new experiment has managed to bring a previously unexplored meaning to these machines.
Robot that smells
A new technology developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has been added to a robot, enabling the device to smell different odors.
This improvement could be used in the near future as a method of identifying drugs, explosives and even diseases.
To make this innovation possible, scientists used a biological olfactory sensor that transforms the result into electrical signals corresponding to nearby smells, an unprecedented feat in modern science.
In addition to all this, the authors of the study claim that the machine has a capacity 10 thousand times greater than that commonly used.
They also explain that our sensory organs, responsible for the senses, use receptors that send different signals so that the brain can distinguish tastes, odors, colors, textures, etc.
Evolutions are still necessary
Dr. Ben Maoz and Professor Amir Ayali of the Fleischman School of Engineering and the Sagol School of Neuroscience co-authored the study and explained that the senses that exist in nature are far superior to those of humans.
A mosquito, for example, is able to detect a 0.01% difference in the level of carbon dioxide in the air. Check out the video of the robot:
The evolution of this method for the use of animal sensors could certainly increase the technological capacity of the devices, since the success of the project is due to the successful connection between a biological sensor and an electronic system.
