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A description of the Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot, by Garnet Hertz: "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental mechanism that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. If the cockroach moves left, the robot moves left. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback to the cockroach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as the CPU

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  • but...WHY??

  • build one with a big windshield and guns so we can learn the cockroaches true intentions.

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  • You people giving bad comments are such loser asswholes

  • @ectyecty It was rejected but later becomes one of the most influential artistic works in history. It is influential not because of its aesthetic or material design per se, but the conceptual framework which strikes many people to think about the (now classic) question: “What qualify as art and what not?”

  • @ectyecty One of the most well-known conceptual art pieces was Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp submitted a very common urinal basin signed with “R. Mutt 1917” to an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York claiming it as an artistic piece.

  • It is not built to solve a particular engineering problem or to create a scientific model of a particular tendency. It is not an answer to a problem, but a project to inspire questions. The type of questions that people must ask before starting out a ground breaking engineering project, a new scientific model or even a new artistic movement.

  • ... and how will this help us out?

  • wow this was hard to watch

  • I had a pet Madagascar cock roach. I loved him, he hissed at me all the time:)

  • Some nerds have entirely too much time on their hands.

  • that is so retarded

  • they just put a cockroach on the top of a robot....

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