"Cyber-Roach" Forces Rethink On Animal Movement 41
Lanxon writes "A team of researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in London has built a 'cyber-cockroach' (a cockroach wearing an accelerometer in a tiny backpack) to try and better understand the movements of many-legged animals. They found that unlike bipedal creatures, animals with more than two legs don't adjust their movements when walking over a softer surface."
The academic paper is available from the Journal of Experimental Biology. This research will be helpful in finding better ways for multi-legged robots to navigate difficult terrain.
The coolest thing about the Robo-Roach (Score:4, Funny)
That robo-roach used to be a human guy, I think he was Czech? Anyway, he woke up one morning and he was a bug. And just when he started getting used to that, they put some cyber-helmet on him and started doing weird experiments on him! Talk about a shitty life!
Cyber roaches are old stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Cyber roaches [google.com] have existed for nearly 25 years. Call me again when you have the cyber T-Rex.