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Chimpanzees Help Researchers Improve Machine Learning of Animal Simulations
Researchers at the University of Manchester in the U.K. have developed new computer models of chimpanzees that are improving understanding of their walking dynamics.
Credit: Bill Sellers
New computer models of chimpanzees are improving understanding of their walking dynamics, thanks to researchers at the University of Manchester in the U.K.
The team says its research demonstrates how simple modifications to machine-learning algorithms can generate more accurate digital animal simulations, helping scientists explore primate locomotion and its possible connection to stability while moving through the trees.
"The idea was to look at how much energy it costs to walk in a stable fashion compared to other movement patterns," notes Manchester professor Bill Sellers.
Among the team's findings was that "The realism of the gait produced by the chimpanzee model is considerably enhanced by including a lateral stability and it is highly likely that this is an important evolutionary development," Sellers says.
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