Re: Computer in bug?

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From: rbr... Russell Brown
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 18:43

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In article <47...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
>In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a
>COMPUTER in a BUG?   That is, a programmable sensor in an insect?

	Rod Brooks, of the AI Lab at MIT (as if there were another AI Lab)
has gone even further than that.  He designed a computer bug (or was it a
bug computer).  The thing is an artificial insect about six or eight inches
long with a couple of microprocessors on board.  When he talked here last
year, he brought videotape of the thing crawling around the lab (over objects,
etc).  I believe the thing was programmed to seek heat (as indicated by its
infrared sensors) since hot things might be food sources.  Brooks claimed that
his next project was a robot iguana.

Russell G. Brown					rbr...@cs.cornell.edu

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