article_snippet.sent: The humble honeybee may only be small, but scientists are hoping to use The humble honeybee brain to power a series of futuristic-style drones.
article_snippet.sent: Boffins are currently working towards digitally recreating the cognitive abilities of the Apis Mellifera or European Honeybee.
article_snippet.sent: Their final aim is to build a robot that thinks, senses and acts just like the tiny insects.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists are working towards building a robot that thinks, senses and acts just like a honeybee .
article_snippet.sent: Professor James Marshall said if they were able to recreate a fraction of the honeybees ability they would have made 'tremendous advances' The artificial brain is being created by the Green Brain Project, which is a collaboration between researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex.
article_snippet.sent: Bees and all other insects are miracles of engineering which we are nowhere near equalling,' Professor James Marshall reportedly told the BBC. '
article_snippet.sent: If we could even recreate a fraction of Bees and all other insects abilities in a robot system then we would have made a tremendous advance.'
article_snippet.sent: Building an artificial brain is a complex process and so far, scientist have only managed to clone the part of the bee's brain which allows it to see.
article_snippet.sent: To do this they mapped out the  brain of the honeybee and recreated the honeybee with circuits that fire on and off in an organic brain, Discovery Magazine reported.
article_snippet.sent: Building an artificial brain is a complex process and so far, scientist have only managed to clone the part of the bee's brain which allows it to see .
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists aim to build robot that thinks, senses and acts like honeybee .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: So far team has managed to replicate part of brain that allows bee to see .
  