Academe invents 'brain' for Navy robots.

• Author: Williams, Robert H.
• Position: Tech Talk - Brief Article

U.S. and Russian scientists developed a brain-based controller for Navy unmanned underwater vehicles. Russia's Nizhny Novgorod State University and Institute for Applied Sciences, and New York Medical School are collaborating on the project.

Office of Naval Research project sponsor Tom McKenna said the controller emulates the part of the brain that governs balance and limb movement. A spokesman explained the controller "can be used to replicate not only the human body's ability to carry...