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Semi-related, I was reading a book called Wetware - A computer in every living cell, and it mentions about William Grey Walter, who created simple robot 'tortoi

Semi-related, I was reading a book called Wetware - A computer in every living cell, and it mentions about William Grey Walter, who created simple robot 'tortoises'. There's some intriguing videos of them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQE82derooc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQE82derooc from the 50s. I'm just trying to find some schematics at the moment, it sounds like they used vacuum tubes. Obviously Grey Walter's robots will be far more simplistic, but I found them intriguing. The OpenWorm project is really cool too, I'm curious how well their model maps to reality now, whether it's possible or will be possible for the simulated model to produce near identical movement to a real c. elegans under the presence of certain chemicals.

cr0sh 9y ago
> I'm just trying to find some schematics at the moment, it sounds like they used vacuum tubes. Yes - vacuum tubes and relays, cds cells (or maybe selenium cells). Transistors would have been very expensive and fragile, if even available. Here are some links that may help you: http://cyberneticzoo.com/category/cyberneticanimals/grey-walter-cyberneticanimals/ http://cyberneticzoo.com/category/cyberneticanimals/grey-wal... http://www.roboticsportal.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Speculatrix.gif http://www.roboticsportal.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Spec... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-exHhj_kM47Y/VVknwK5WPsI/AAAAAAAAA5s/nRev66sTAYA/s1600/CircuitLivingBrainp242.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-exHhj_kM47Y/VVknwK5WPsI/AAAAAAAAA5...