[Dprglist] Researchers Let Goldfish Drive a Motorized Tank on Wheels. Watch What Happens

[Doug Emes]

Oooh, ooh, I know the answer to this one from following DPA's
excellent subsumption presentations.
Most Bugs want to go to less bright, more protected environments.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 2:53 PM Murray Altheim via DPRGlist
<dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:
>
> Here in New Zealand we have a problem with our crickets: to paraphrase
> Martin Brody, "you're going to need a bigger car:"
>
>    Wētā
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%93t%C4%81
>
> and even:
>
>    Giant wētā
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_w%C4%93t%C4%81
>
> Not pretty things.
>
> I know where I want them to go, but the bigger question is where do bugs
> themselves want to go? I guess this gives us a way to find out, but I
> submit that some kind of burrowing robotic machine would be preferred,
> not a terrestrial car. A cockroach-driven car might drive to McDonalds.
>
> Murray
>
> On 8/01/22 06:54, jesse brockmann via DPRGlist wrote:
> > It's not just gold fish.  Matel created a cricket driven car.   It's so silly I had to buy one..
> >
> > https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
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