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Article: Robotic roach is leader of the pack.(BUSINESS)(TECHNOLOGY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2006
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Byline: Fred Reed, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
An autonomous mechanical cockroach may not seem to be humanity's most crucial technological need just now, but European scientists have come up with one anyway. And it is a natural leader, able to get the roaches to go where it wants them to.
The robot is a product of the LEURRE Project, started in Europe in 2002. It is thought to be one of the first efforts to have a robot be accepted by animals as one of themselves. The hope is that one day robots based on the same principles may be of use in such fields as herding sheep or raising poultry.
The robot is called "InsBot," for Insect Robot, and is about ...