Robot controlled by moth brain

Scientists at the University of Arizona researchers built a robot that's guided by a moth's brain impules.

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The moth is immobilize inside a plastic tube mounted atop the 6-inch-tall wheeled robot. To get the moth to imitate flight, [professor Charles M.] Higgins and his team placed the moth in its apparatus on a circular platform surrounded by a 14-inch-high revolving wall painted with vertical stripes. The moth's neuron reacts to the movement of the stripes and the process begins.

The brain of a moth is about the size of a grain of rice. Although small, "its compact size and simplicity allows for an efficient way to do brain research," Higgins said.

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