Researchers in Belgium infiltrated cockroach colonies with robots in order to study their group behavior. The robots didn’t look much like cockroaches, but the roaches didn’t mind as long as they smelled right. Not only were the robots accepted as fellow cockroaches, but they became leaders and influenced the groups’ behavior! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16328789&ps=bb1
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Come, my tiny cockroach army, for tonight we take over the world! Muahahahahahaaaaaa!
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oops, this was meant for the concrete-man movie.
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No offense, but next time put up a warning about the embedded quicktime movie, this crashes a lot of browsers.
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I actually heard it on NPR! They were talking about the robot leading the cockroaches into a trap just like the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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