Miniaturisation: sensory limitations and navigational competence

Ensuring optimal efficiency at the smallest possible physical limit is a challenge for technical systems, which has been elegantly solved by biological systems. Irrespective of size, the challenges involved in navigation are similar across animals. So what are the implications of small size for sensing, for computation and for learning and memory? I will take advantage of the dramatic variation in body size, which varies by several orders of magnitude, to investigate the effect of size on brain capacity, sensory receptors and navigation competence. Outcomes of this project will reveal the consequences of miniaturisation informing us of the needs for achieving miniature, competent and autonomous biological agents.