Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body

MikeDYur

I'm wondering if we should be using our creators creations, to create our own.




http://m.phys.org/news/2016-07-robot-sea-slug-d-body.html

Whit

Wow! Interesting article.

erco

Awesome article and a great site. Lots of related articles at the bottom. This one's for PhiPi:. http://m.phys.org/news/2015-11-row-bot-dirty.html

erco

This "eat and excrete" Ecobot eats flies and poops. Double yuck!

http://m.phys.org/news/2010-07-self-sustaining-robot-artificial-gut-video.html

MikeDYur

Careful erco, we are on sticky ground with this, the wife threatens to re-home the little dog when she has an accident in the house. If this is going to be a popular trend in robotics, I may have to take up knitting.

erco

Related: So how long before someone makes a cyborg out of a cadaver? Probably already being done in a secret lab somewhere. Six million dollars wouldn't go so far these days.

Wait, where is Humanoido's Basic Stamp Supercomputer???!!!

MikeDYur

erco wrote: »

Wait, where is Humanoido's Basic Stamp Supercomputer???!!!

Could be running for president, that would explain why old code ended up in some speeches.

Whit

MikeDYur wrote: »

I'm wondering if we should be using our creators creations, to create our own.

This week's sermon?