How Dung Beetles Are Guiding the Next Generation of Robots
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Professor Marie Dacke studied dung beetles.
- A2
Professor Marie Dacke and other scientists studied how dung beetles find their way.
- B1
Researchers have studied how dung beetles find their way.
- B2
Researchers have studied the internal navigation system of dung beetles.
- C1
A dung beetle has a brain smaller than a grain of rice.
- C2
Dung beetles do not look like creatures with much to teach an engineer.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- finding
- A piece of information that is discovered during an official study or research.
- circuit
- A closed path that an electric current or computer signal can flow around.
- navigation
- The act or skill of finding the right way to travel from one place to another.
- pattern
- A regular arrangement of lines, shapes, or light that repeats in a predictable way.
- respond
- To react or do something as an answer to a change, signal, or event.
- solve
- To find a successful way to deal with a problem or difficult situation.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. Read the original for the full report.