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10/08/2004: "Roach Coach"

The project-based element of "Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" consists of a cockroach-controlled mobile robot: a mechanical system that amplifies and tranlates the bodily movement and intelligence of a giant hissing madagascan cockroach into the locomotion of a fast, agile, and viscerally dangerous machine. The hybrid biorobotic system will strive to illustrate that the simple embodied intelligence of a living cockroach provides a substantially captivating and novel control center ("central processing unit", CPU) for a mobile robot, producing tounge-in-cheek "emergent" and complex behavior akin to the goals of artificial life and artificial intelligence research.

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Now I just need a giant hissing madagascan cockroach.