Abstract:  Bees can be trained to discriminate between patterns and they fly around without crashing, return to base and find flowers in familiar locations.  How do they do this with a small brain? The answer is that they do much less than we think, and the results are very useful for designing robot vision.

Resume:  G.A. Horridge graduated from Cambridge University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He has had various posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, UCLA and St. Andrews. Adrian has published 7 books and 240 papers. He has supervised more than 45 PhD students personally over the years. A total of about 80 research workers at various levels have trained under his responsibility, 20 of them now full Professors, 7 are Fellows of the Royal Society, and about 20 are in the USA. Presently he is Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Australian National University. His CV succinctly reads “Concerned with planning research and getting it done.”