Advances in neuroscience are giving us insight into how the honey bee mind works. The honey bee has evolved as the consummate generalist pollinator. Bees can rapidly learn how to efficiently harvest pollen and nectar from scattered, diverse and ephemeral flowers and return those resources to its hive. All this is achieved with a brain containing less than one million neurons. I discuss what we currently know of the capacity and limits to a bees intelligence, what we understand of the mechanisms of their cognition, and how this differs from contemporary approaches used in AI and autonomous robotics.
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