Roachbot: Cockroach Controlled Robot
Posted on December 9, 2007 Comments (3)
“Roaches are gross. Robots are good. But — cockroach-controlled robots?” Nice quote 🙂 The video shows roboticist Garnet Hertz’s large robot moved by a cockroach on a pingpong ball (a cockroach trackball).
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February 9th, 2009 @ 9:10 am
Initially, Zakin expects the outcome to be devices the size of small Lego pieces, but as the technology improves the modules and the machines assembled from them should scale down further…
March 29th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
“At first, the young robot spent a lot of time crashing into things. But after a few weeks of practice, its performance began to improve as the connections between the active neurons in its brain strengthened…”
July 15th, 2009 @ 10:36 am
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