Roboticists have long drawn inspiration from nature to develop navigation and simultaneous
localization and map** (SLAM) systems such as RatSLAM. Animals such as birds and …

Studies of human and rodent navigation often reveal a remarkable cross-species similarity
between the cognitive and neural mechanisms of navigation. Such cross-species …

Spatial navigation depends on the combination of multiple sensory cues from idiothetic and
allothetic sources. The computational mechanisms of mammalian brains in integrating …

We present a new neuro-inspired reinforcement learning architecture for robot online
learning and decision-making during both social and non-social scenarios. The goal is to …

Recent studies on brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) implemented in robotic systems have
shown that the system's effectiveness in assisting individuals with movement disorders to …

Abstract Traditional Turing Machines (TMs) are symbolic whose hand-crafted
representations are static and limited. Developmental Network 1 (DN-1) uses emergent …

Autonomous motivated spatial navigation in animals or robots requires the association
between spatial location and value. Hippocampal place cells are involved in goal-directed …

The hippocampus is involved in spatial navigation and memory in rodents and humans.
Anatomically, the hippocampus extends along a longitudinal axis that shows a combination …

Modularity as observed in biological systems has proven valuable for guiding classical
motor theories towards good answers about action selection and execution. New challenges …

Background Understanding the neural substrate of information encoding and processing
requires a precise control of the animal's behavior. Most of what has been learned from the …