Sentences with phrase «lampreys into»
The scientists say their finding could be used to drive lampreys into an area where they could be captured and killed.
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The jawless, blood - sucking sea lamprey found its way into the Great Lakes in the early 20th century through man - made canals, and has been disturbing the peace ever since.
Other researchers have placed similar robots, in the form of lobsters and lampreys, on the seafloor, and Jeremijenko hopes to have still more varieties hopping, slithering, and climbing their way into the environment soon.
If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.
According to Biorob director Auke Ijspeert, this invention is the logical follow - up of research the lab has done into locomotion that included a salamander robot and a lamprey robot.
The human brain is very different from the brain of a lamprey, but in both species the neocortex — the outer layers of the brain — is divided into two mirror - image hemispheres.
For over a decade, the Bronner group has studied lamprey because of the unique insights they offer into the evolution of vertebrates, and particularly the evolution of new structures like jaws.