2006 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan
An automatic landing system for an aircraft is expensive and complex. And it is just one of many systems that would be required to make a truly robotic aircraft.
But a bee can take off, find targets, fly through tunnels, navigate home, and land without any of that complexity. It uses a minute brain of about a million nerve cells, which is the size of a sesame seed and weighs just a tenth of a milligram.
Mandyam Srinivasan – known to all as Srini – has dedicated his research career to understanding just how bees work. Read More about 2006 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science