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Swimming Cockroach Robot Developed
Onnimikki writes "The Ambulatory Robotics Lab at McGill University has made a six-legged swimming cockroach robot as part of Project Aqua. The robot is a waterproof version of the RHex robot, whose inspiration is the biomimetic work by Bob Full of Gecko glue fame. Other cool stuff from the ARL page includes a waddling bipedal RHex, and the world's first galloping robot."
I could have so much fun with one of these. Scaring my mum/sister/girlfriend. I want one!
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
inspiration is the biomimetic work by Bob Full of Gecko glue fame.
Why is he full of Gecko glue?
Talk about getting stuck into your work...
They could have just asked me, I've got plent of cockroaches around here and could have lent them some.
With a little hack. I'll be able to retrieve all of Colin Montgomerie's (Monty)'s balls from the lake at the US Open starting today!
Come on Justin!
Robot cockroaches running Windows infect the bugs with bugs. Insect population crashes, MS share price soars.
--- Yx3 = Delilah ---
Using Windows CE or XP as a real-time OS is possible, it's just a matter of warping time. Time warping isn't possible yet, but the Microsoft RTOSes that use this feature already exist. That's how far ahead of the curve Microsoft is.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
*hits cockroach with shoe*
What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?
"What's this robotic cockroach doing in my soup?"
"The...um...backstroke?"
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
It doesn't really need to track objects to be able to run when the lights go on until it is in a dark place.
I want a robot which can fetch me a cold drink, not swim in it.
Came in this morning, tried to login to squirrelmail.... Hmmmm... very slow... Get to the web server.... Hummmm... Lotsa httpd processes... Hummmmm...
tcpdump -i eth0 -n port 80...
Hmmmm... The console scrolls non-stop! Arrrgh! Am I being DOS'ed!?!?!?!?
Thanks slashdot, you made me panic for a while. Hope somebody mirrored the pages cuz' I can't handle this load without being prepared for it.
Please check again in a few days if you're really intereseted.
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Danny, McGill CIM SysAdmin.
Just great. Now I have to keep a portable EMP generator next to my cans of RAID under the kitchen sink. Do you know how much power those f***n things use?
Let's hope they don't teach the little bastards to breed. What will they do, lay their eggs in my box of spare PC parts? Although I assume there'll be a nice satisfying mechanical *crunch* when you step on them.
Gives new meaning to cockroaches carrying diseases. Maybe they'll find one that transmits W95/Klez@mm. Norton Antivirus will now cost three times as much to ship, because it comes with a large hammer. Don't download files, don't open mail attachments, and put a ring of flea powder around your PC. "Dr. Solomon..." *WHAM WHAM WHAM* *crunch* "...has detected and isolated a virus."
On the other hand, it'd make for a nice way to smuggle an X10 cam into a cute girl's bedroom--assuming they ever make the transmitter units weigh less than 5 pounds. Blattidae Elegans Electronicus indeed.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
I do not want them near my boat...
It's bad enough on Land and Beach-
Keep that insect out of reach!!!
I do not want electric roach,
Nor the real thing to approach!
Don Marquis, entombed, is spinning-
And now, you say, the roachbot's... swimming?
My house is currently invaded-
I didn't want this thing created!
Why not start with robot ants,
or with spiders, tech advance-
I do Not LIKE the cockroach breed!
I do not want them close to me!
I'm scared of those alive and well-
and these
not even Flit can Kill!
My morning tribute to Dr. Suess and his earliy career, and Mr. Marquis, whose cockroach vers libre poet would have had quite a bit to say on this one. Those were the first things to leap to the forefront of my mind- Quick, henry- the flit! and oh lordy what would archy say.
"I'd say 'Have a good time,' but arson is still illegal.
Great, after the nuclear holocaust, there will be nothing on Earth but a few humans fighting off highly evolved Terminator-like robotic roaches and radioactive cockroaches.
--- I'm Green Hornet's sidekick not Inspector Clouseau's!