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Cockroach-Controlled Robot

Posted by timothy on from the no-*you*-do-it-yourself dept.

robotsrule writes "The latest issue of Make Magazine volume 2 from O'Reilly publishing has an article on a cockroach controlled robot. Roboticist Garnet Hertz has mounted a Giant Madagascan Hissing Cockroach that drives a small mobile robot around by walking on top of a Kensington trackball. There is a row of proximity sensor triggered LEDs that shine light in the roach's eyes, making him steer the robot since roaches instinctively avoid light. Garnet's web page 'Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine' details the project with several images of the roach in action. Debugging the project is inherently impossible."

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  1. I for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    .. welcome our new robo insectroid overlords.

  2. I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    welcome our robot controlling cockroach overlords

  3. I for one by GillBates0 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our new Giant Madagascan Hissing Cockroach overlords.

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  4. Disgusting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This is Outragiously sick and disgusting experiment, someone should shut this guy down

  5. I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...welcome our new Cockroach Controlled Robot overlords

  6. I for one by NIK282000 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Welcome our new insect overlords

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