[extropy-chat] Insect AI (was Wetware vs. Hardware)

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There was a mower-bot design in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science
> in
> the early 90's which used a weed whacker head powered by an electric
> moter, guided by off the shelf parts: pc board, leds and
> photosensors,
> etc. which could find the edge of a lawn, mow along it and follow the
> edge of its own previous path to mow the lawn in a conventional
> spiral
> or back and forth pattern, avoiding obstacles, etc.

Hmm.  If it was available from kit, I wonder why no one's made a
business out of pre-assembling & selling them?  Too expensive, or is
there some hidden performance flaw?