Smart Bees Continue to Draw Interest

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers from University College London (UCL) have shown that bees are able to solve complicated color puzzles. In their study, bees were trained to find artificial flowers containing a nectar reward and colored in blue. Then they removed the nectar and put at random artificial flowers illuminated by yellow, blue, yellow and green lights. But wherever the blue flowers were, the bees continued to select them even if there was no longer a reward. These findings may soon lead to the design of sophisticated visual systems for autonomous robots."

Comments

Not Smart

[pavon]

The story here isn't that bees are smart - this is simple pavlovian association going on, not any sort of problem solving. The story is that they are able to recognize the color of objects that are complexly lit.

smart?

[Scrameustache]

They keep going for it after it stops paying? Funny, we hear that octopus are smart because they don't.

Someone confused "memory" with "intelligence" again.