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."

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Smart bees continue to draw interest?

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5 Comments in 45 minutes? This must be some strange use of the word "Interest" that I was previously unaware of.