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Pye-Rate
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 Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:15 pm Post subject: Bionic ants that team up to move objects! |
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Bud Brewster
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Oh, I LOVE this one! Read on.
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The Bionic Ant
Screenshot by author, from YouTube
In a lab in Germany lives a strange breed of ant. These ants have ceramic limbs and 3D-printed bodies. They gain sustenance by charging their batteries through metal antennae against electric rails.
Where eyes should be there are two parts of a stereo camera. Underneath each thorax sits an optical sensor pulled from a computer's mouse. All along the body, like stripes from a biomechanical tiger, are circuits and electric conduits.
These bionic ant mimics are the size of a human hand. There are at least a dozen of them, and they're learning to work together.
* Click to view YouTube video.
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