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Moths That Drive Cars

• mesozoic 13y ago
  This is fascinating. Perhaps better than engineering highly sensitive scent sensor devices, breeding moths or other small animals and using their natural abilities as a portion of a larger device could be more effective or economical.
  • chrisfarms 13y ago
    Might have to replace your "sensors" a lot, since I'm pretty sure most moths only live for a a fortnight or so.
    • kepano 13y ago
      That's longer than the batteries might last.
      • qbrass 13y ago
        Except you can't kill a battery with a can of Raid. Maybe large insect repellant purchases will be enough to get a warrant.
• Zikes 13y ago
  > This is the first time I've heard of an insect running (or driving) a robot. I could swear I saw a similar project once that used cockroaches. Edit: Found it. http://vimeo.com/m/2398096 http://vimeo.com/m/2398096
  • andrewmunsell 13y ago
    And the reverse-- remote controlled cockroaches :) http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57509894-1/eek-remote-controlled-cyborg-cockroaches-are-real/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57509894-1/eek-remote-co...
• GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  Am I the only one not amazed by this? Moths can walk. The scientist simply switched what the moth thought was ground with a trackball. The moth walked to the pheromone as it normally would have.
• FleursDuMal 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon