Discussion Zone: => General Chat => Topic started by: kinjo on September 09, 2012, 09:39:15 AM
Title: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
Post by: kinjo on September 09, 2012, 09:39:15 AM
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Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look for survivors.
Video footage from the experiments at North Carolina State University shows the part-robot roaches being directed along a curving path via remote control. The researchers say they attached a lightweight chip with a wireless receiver and transmitter onto Madagascar hissing cockroaches and wired a microcontroller to the insects' antennae and cerci — the sensory organs on the bug's abdomen that cause it to run away from danger.
With electrical signals, the researchers stimulated the cerci to trick the roaches into thinking they needed to scamper away from a predator. Once moving, charges sent to the antennae controlled the insects' direction. A signal sent to one antenna could make a roach think its feeler was touching a wall, sending it in the opposite direction, a statement from NC State explained.
"Building small-scale robots that can perform in such uncertain, dynamic conditions is enormously difficult. We decided to use biobotic cockroaches in place of robots, as designing robots at that scale is very challenging, and cockroaches are experts at performing in such a hostile environment," NC State researcher Alper Bozkurt said in the statement.
"Ultimately, we think this will allow us to create a mobile web of smart sensors that uses cockroaches to collect and transmit information, such as finding survivors in a building that's been destroyed by an earthquake," Bozkurt added.
The researchers reported the results of their experiments late last month at the annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society in San Diego, Calif.
Other researchers have floated the possibility of technologically enhanced roaches. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University demonstrated how the insects could be outfitted with an implantable biofuel cell powered by a sugar the bugs make from their food. Electricity from such a cell then could be used to power sensors on the insect or to manipulate it by remote control.
I think this is cool, but what is next?!?!?! They could be just robotic.
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Post by: willow on September 10, 2012, 01:44:42 AM
ill rad this tommarow... but for now... the title alone creeps me out. like i ain't fraid o bugs... but shit.... cockroaches with potential to do many things man..... so many things.... freky
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Post by: kinjo on September 10, 2012, 07:15:48 AM
lol,... mmmm bugs
ROBOBUG
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Post by: tkoold on September 10, 2012, 12:49:50 PM
yeah technology is getting crazy with its potential..
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Post by: willow on September 10, 2012, 03:54:42 PM
ok now that i read this.... bug abuse. those poor lil cockroaches man... why cant they just live life free not as shock induced drones..... i'm sad now. seriously.
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Post by: kinjo on September 10, 2012, 04:52:20 PM
animals rights groups
bugs rights groups
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Post by: willow on September 10, 2012, 07:49:07 PM
yea man... someone gotta start one... they get no respect. T^T
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Post by: kinjo on September 10, 2012, 08:43:56 PM
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Post by: tkoold on September 11, 2012, 04:04:57 AM
maybe if Starship Troopers the movie were real we bug rights would be squashed lol PUN INTENDED :P
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Post by: kinjo on September 11, 2012, 11:22:37 AM
they made like 4 sequels to that....
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Post by: willow on September 11, 2012, 01:53:38 PM
*yet agin fails to recognize pop culture referances... pretends it's MIB*
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Post by: tkoold on September 11, 2012, 01:54:58 PM
Willow you have to see the First Star Ship Troopers Movie its so OBNOXIOUS, and yeah kinjo i want to see them but ive heard they are all Terrible but they keep making movies because the original Created such a cult following.
Title: Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
Post by: kinjo on September 12, 2012, 08:22:17 PM
like resident evil did, nothing like the games... such fallacies
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Post by: willow on September 13, 2012, 12:00:24 AM
*still needs to play that game too* .... i feel like too much of my to do lists consist of screens some times... o well~ *skips*
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Post by: kinjo on September 13, 2012, 07:07:09 AM
try the game "Go" it's a board game
really fun against other peoples
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Post by: willow on September 13, 2012, 02:38:40 PM
is this like a new game... or that weird japanese checkers one....? *never heard of it*
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Post by: tkoold on September 14, 2012, 02:57:40 PM
dude i bet the profits from the resident Evil movies could Fund the Next Sega video game system... (Sega & kanomi Invented resident evil.. it doesent exist without them)
Title: Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
Post by: kinjo on September 15, 2012, 12:41:06 PM
its old japanese checkers one, but it's nothing like checkers
you start with an empty board, and only two colors white and black
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Post by: tkoold on September 16, 2012, 02:47:05 AM
ive played chinese checkers but not Japanese checkers... I feel so Racial now lol... how many countrys have their own Version of Checkers?
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Post by: kinjo on September 16, 2012, 10:41:44 AM
they don't consider it checkers...
it's called go and it doesn't even play like checkers...
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Post by: willow on September 16, 2012, 11:31:21 PM
yea but its circles on a board man... and some degree of strategy.... good enough fo me.... though i cant even play chess.... go looked more interestin' from my sisters hikaru no go.... jeje
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Post by: tkoold on September 20, 2012, 12:32:23 AM
im good at chess
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Post by: kinjo on September 23, 2012, 07:26:22 PM
then let's play
i once won a 1st place got a trophy and everything for Chess! ya pretty nerdy... However I have a few other trophys for basketball and other stuffs. :-P
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Post by: tkoold on October 01, 2012, 02:17:54 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFguLwUT5lg
crazy stuff, technically they just proved electrisity can controll any and all movements of all forms of living life, outside of a soul, the only thing that could correctly modulate it all to do somthing as a controlledcommand correctly would be a computer.
Title: Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
Post by: willow on October 01, 2012, 02:43:41 AM
we should try this on a human and see if the soul actually does give any [cen] s or if it's allpost happening... im like... curious now.... hahahaha...woah...
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Post by: tkoold on October 01, 2012, 03:02:41 AM
maybe this is how zombies are created we recharge a body just enough ....
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Post by: willow on October 01, 2012, 03:10:00 AM
naws man i think frankenstein stole that
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Post by: tkoold on October 01, 2012, 03:24:35 AM
lol i love young frankenstien!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw1lzxTAis
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Post by: kinjo on October 01, 2012, 07:12:39 AM
i agree, great movie
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Post by: tkoold on October 02, 2012, 02:38:21 AM
NOT THE RED SWITCH!! sadly i cant find a clip on youtube with that pricless line.. :(
but the trailer will have to do!! KINJO this 4m will show all the young web users of the world who visit the 4m the WONDERS of this awesome 70's -80's comedy movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOPTriLG5cU
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Post by: willow on October 02, 2012, 03:20:04 AM
holy crap! had no clue it was that old... o_o
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Post by: tkoold on October 03, 2012, 01:23:54 AM
Willow old does not matter What matters is it has GENE Wilder in it you should make a note to SEE ALL the movies that the actor Gene wilder in it, it will broaden your Horizons and you will see one of the greatest Comdeic actors of all time!
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Post by: willow on October 03, 2012, 01:49:57 AM
i did see it years ago. twas pretty dec3nt..... i dont really keep track of these actor things man.... and i tend to hate comedies....
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Post by: tkoold on October 03, 2012, 03:59:19 AM
gene wilder is worth a exception willow all you have to do is see the original willy wonka
hes a very sophiosticated and smart actor that knows how to enhance any role he is in, a rare actor who Broadens the horizon of the movie.
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Post by: willow on October 03, 2012, 02:24:44 PM
wooooah. i woulda never known that was the same dewd man.... wow. [ted]
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Post by: tkoold on October 04, 2012, 02:42:06 AM
willow you make me laugh sometimes
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Post by: kinjo on October 06, 2012, 09:29:49 PM