Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches?

unassimilatible writes "It behaves like a cockroach. It smells like a cockroach. It is accepted by other cockroaches. But it is not a cockroach. It is a robot and scientists say its invention is a breakthrough in mankind's struggle to control the animal kingdom. The Sunday Times is reporting on a cool form of robotics, impersonating (inanimalnating?) animals. Leurre is a project on building and controlling mixed societies composed of animals and artificial agents. Within a decade, its inventors believe, it will be leading the unwanted pests out of dark kitchen corners, to where they can be eliminated. Additionally, they say they will soon be using robots to stop sheep jumping off cliffs and to encourage chickens to take exercise. Schematics, tools, and pictures here. Apparently, cockroaches do not wear tinfoil hats, as they are not smart enough to be suspicious of box-shaped circuit boards with an antennae sticking out."

Comments

That will never work

[haggar]

You have to replace step 5. with "???".

Re:The First Terminator

[xs650]

"Human models should be available in a few decades."

The beta model has been undergoing testing in the Whitehouse for close to 4 years. Except for problems with the English language it has been remarkably succesful, good enough that the humans that have been fooled by it have extended the test 4 years.

Re:At first I thought -Who will think of the roach

[Boronx]

That's why Condi's getting promoted, the new head of the RNC is gay, and Doug Feith, a man fired twenty years ago for giving info to the Israelis, a man totally taken in by an Iranian agent in the run up to Iraq, a man called the "fucking stupidest guy on earth" by non other than Tommy Franks is getting the homeland security position.

Not to mention a new AG who wrote memos supporting the torture at Abu Ghraib.

It's more likely that you don't understand why you won. Study after study showed just days before the election that the vast majority of Bush voters believed Bush's policies were 180 degrees from what they actually were on a whole range of issues.