Cockroach-controlled robot

[Thorin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZD59Ic9T8

"Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental mechanism that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. If the cockroach moves left, the robot moves left. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback to the cockroach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as the CPU.

Yeah, cuz we need to give the cockroach even better survivability...

[Darren Dirt]

LOL, dammit I'm a couple of hours late!

Ah well, even the same link so the description is the same


...but at least there's no freakin' laser beam on his head.

Yet.





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more versions, with tons of "responses" by the looks of things.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cockroach+robot&search=Search

and yes, most people are SCARED.


(Daily Planet actually did a story on it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wKE83vxdk)