Gizmodo.com has presented the “Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot” which is an experimental mechanism that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach and a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. If the cockroach moves left, the robot moves left. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback to the cockroach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as the CPU. Via Gizmodo VIDEO –>
Why putting a cockroach as a pilot is beyond me. Here are some links about this subject if you are interested.
ABC.net
High T3ch Magazine mention,
9-18-2006 at 06:09:32 ping from 68.178.211.80[...] If you hate me ever since I posted about the Cockroach Controlled Robot because you protest for animal rights, please ignore this post. The Fish Controlled Tank is a fish tank that moves according to the movements of the fish. A camera mounted above the tank tracks the fish movments and a computer translates them into wheel movements. VIDEO-> [...]