Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot

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By Garnet Hertz (2005) "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.

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

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The Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot at the STRP Festival in the Netherlands in spring 2006.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXcwLRAxB4[/youtube]