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Title: Flight of the moth cyborg!
Post by: gunug on August 28, 2014, 09:55:47 AM: Years ago I worked at the Division of Biological Sciences at KU and a researcher developed a 3D Servosphere to help him study cockroaches. He would
do surgery on these big guys (1-1/2 inches long at least) and plant electrodes in the roach brains. Then he would lead them to walk on the treadmill using
pheromones to encourage them. It was all controlled by a DEC PDP-11 mini-computer (size of the phone booths we no longer have either) and everything
was great until the servosphere would go crazy and either fling the roach across the room or get him tangled up in the drive wheels on the underside
of the sphere.

Researchers at North Carolina State University are doing similar work with the computer control of big white moths in flight:

“In the big picture, we want to know whether we can control the movement of moths for use in applications such as search and rescue operations,” says Dr. Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work. “The idea would be to attach sensors to moths in order to create a flexible, aerial sensor network that can identify survivors or public health hazards in the wake of a disaster.”

http://www.electronicproducts.com/Computer...th_cyborgs.aspx
Title: Flight of the moth cyborg!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 28, 2014, 10:25:47 AM: OK, I get the "search" part, but there's going to be a lot of research to develop these moths so they can do the "rescue" thing! I'm not sure what some injured person might think when realizing the giant insect is about to pick them up! That could very well be the last thing that person sees; as they die of fright!!! Maybe they could have smaller moths fly over with some loud speakers alerting them to the kind, gentle, helpful giant coming!?

<Beginning of the End>
<The Fly>
<Tonight on Netflix!>
Title: Flight of the moth cyborg!
Post by: gunug on August 28, 2014, 01:36:17 PM: Perhaps they could play Mothra's Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Z6QdeoA24
Title: Flight of the moth cyborg!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on August 28, 2014, 02:03:44 PM: Wait a minute, John, are you really that other Jon? the one with all those sadly humorous "jokes"?!