

The robot roach interacting with its live counterparts
New robots mimic, confuse live insects






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RE: Wow... so what
By Parhel on 11/16/2007 3:08:36 PM , Rating: 2
I thought the same thing at first. Now I think, though, that the box in the center is the fake roach and all the others are real. In the article it said it looked nothing like a real roach, but it wasn't clear if they meant the early prototypes or the current one.

RE: Wow... so what
By glitchc on 11/16/2007 6:31:37 PM , Rating: 2
You're correct. There's no reason for it to look like a real roach, since the roaches cannot "see" very well in the conventional sense. Most insects do not have well-developed vision systems, make distinctions based on smell and touch. Some rely on sound as well. The high def vision we humans carry is very uncommon in nature. You need a pretty sophisticated brain to process the necessary visual algorithms in reasonably real-time.

RE: Wow... so what

RE: Wow... so what

they are more worried about movement than image quality...

