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About
Zuohao Ma is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and bio-robotics, specializing in avian neural decoding and animal–machine interfaces. His work focuses on deciphering the neural encoding mechanisms of flight behavior in pigeons, with the ambitious goal of advancing both fundamental knowledge of avian motor control and the development of next-generation pigeon robots. In his 2024 study, Ma successfully decoded typical flight states from neural signals recorded in the midbrain motor nuclei, achieving 3 citations for its novel approach to overcoming signal quality limitations. His 2023 paper introduced a groundbreaking method to control pigeon robot locomotion by creating virtual fear through micro-stimulation, leveraging instinctive emotions to guide behavior in wild environments—a concept that bypasses the need for real-time state perception. This work, also with 3 citations, represents a significant leap in animal–robot interaction, merging biological decision-making with robotic control. Ma’s contributions are notable for their interdisciplinary creativity, offering a new paradigm for studying animal cognition and for engineering more adaptive, biologically integrated robotic systems.
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