“If This Moth Does Something Crazy, We’re All Gonna Die”
November 8th, 2007
Filed under: Robots: toys, developments, cool innovations, weird shit, Technology
Harnessing the electrical impulses of sight, scientists have built a robot guided by the brain and eyes of a moth.
As the moth tracks the world around it, an electrode in its tiny brain captures faint electrical impulses that a computer translates into action.
The moth, immobilized inside a plastic tube, was mounted on a 6-inch-tall wheeled robot. When the moth moved its eyes to the right, the robot turned in that direction.
Stumble it!
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