Robots manipulating animal behaviour
Little larger than a thumbnail, the cubic insect-like robots or ‘insbots’ are technological marvels. Developed under the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) initiative of the IST programme as the project Leurre, the insbots are fitted with two motors, wheels, a rechargeable battery, several computer processors, a light-sensing camera and an array of infrared proximity sensors.
(Via biologynews .)
[tags]biology, robot, behaviour, insect, animal[/tags]
Category: science
Tags: animal, behaviour, biology, insect, robot
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