Animal and Robot Mixed Societies

by G. Caprari et al. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, June 2005 A group of cockroaches have found a friend in a matchbox-sized robot called Insbot. Developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Insbot has learned how to mimic cockroaches' behaviour and interact with a colony of the insects. The device was developed to show how artificial systems could interact with animals in future mixed societies. Read more