Valentino Braitenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Valentino Braitenberg

Italian-Austrian neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Bolzano, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 09-Sep-2011

Profession: writer, university teacher, neuroscientist, roboticist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Valentino Braitenberg (or Valentin von Braitenberg; 18 June 1926 – 9 September 2011) was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist.
He was former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. His book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology became famous in Robotics and among Psychologists, in which he described how hypothetical analog vehicles (a combination of sensors, actuators and their interconnections), though simple in design, can exhibit behaviors akin to aggression, love, foresight, and optimism.
These have come to be known as Braitenberg vehicles.
His pioneering scientific work was concerned with the relation between structures and functions of the brain.