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

[Joseph Bloch]

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

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Adrian Tymes wrote:

>--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>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.
>>    
>>
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>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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