Japanese and Indonesian researchers have recently created cockroaches, using electrodes and sensors.
They are also known to have a faster reaction speed than ours (20 milliseconds against 200 milliseconds). However, it was for their flattened backs and their ability to sneak into inaccessible places that have prompted a research team to create a concept mixing the animal with technology.
Researchers create cockroaches cyborg
Indeed, a team bringing together researchers from the University of Osaka in Japan and Diponegoro University in Indonesia, thought of creating cockroaches. “The creation of a small -scale functional robot is a challenge; We wanted to get around this obstacle by keeping things simple ”declares Mochammad Ariyanto, mechanical engineer at the University of Diponegoro and the main author of the study published on February 11.
Obstacles are a real problem for robots that sometimes find it difficult to get around them. The species used is Gromphadorhina Porteosa, or whistling cockroaches from Madagascar. These are equipped with electrodes located on antennas and the body as well as sensors that detect movements, obstacles and other data according to Sciencealer. The entire system called BIOBBN (Biohybrid Behavior-Based Navigation), is based on a programming which aims to reach a defined location while avoiding the obstacles present on the path.
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These cockroaches were tested on a course of obstacles strewn with sand, rocks and wood. The researchers explain that the results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed biobbn approach, since the cockroach cockroaches have bypassed obstacles, climbed the walls and reaches targets in simple and complex environments.
“I believe that our cyborg insects can achieve objectives with less effort and power than purely mechanical robots”says Keisuke Morishima, humid robotics engineer from Osaka University. Always according to Sciencethe authors hope that their work will allow these cockroaches to be useful in complex situations for humans such as inspecting dangerous rubble after a war or detecting survivors who could be there.
Source: Sciencealerlet
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