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

[Samantha Atkins]

Very cool and it is really cute to boot.

-s

On Jun 15, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Joseph Bloch wrote:

> Someone already has, it seems:
>
> http://www.friendlyrobotics.com/NewSite/index.htm
>
> but with a mulching mower instead of a weed-wacker. Even returns to  
> its base automatically to recharge. Very neat.
>
> Joseph
>
> Enhance your body "beyond well" and your mind "beyond normal":  
> http://www.humanenhancement.com
> New Jersey Transhumanist Association: http://www.goldenfuture.net/njta
> PostHumanity Rising: http://transhumanist.blogspot.com/ (updated  
> yesterday!)
>
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
>
>> --- 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?
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