A Cyborg Fly
Yesterday we posted about a multitouch control interface for robots, and now this. That generic sci-fi future we were all promised from books and the movies seems to be getting delivered to us, bit by bit, but filtered through a surrealist’s mind. Well, truth is always stranger than science fiction. Take one common fruit fly, an obstacle course, a robot, and the ingenuity of the researchers over at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, which sees them building a miniature screen with flashing lights that stimulate the fly to beat either wing and avoid the lights, which are actually the obstacles. And you have a cyborg fly. How about that.
[via Geekosystem.com]
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