We've seen robots
controlled by
bugs, so it seems only logical that scientists would continue their quest down the de-evolutionary chain to find
ever simpler and more easily enslaved creatures to lend their brains to their creations. And that process may well have
reached its apotheosis with the bot recently unveiled by Klaus-Peter Zauner of the University of Southampton, which is
controlled by a bright yellow slime mold. The single-celled organism naturally moves away from light and toward moist
places, and was able to control a six-legged robot when light was focused on a sensor. Since the slime mold is able to
grow to several feet in size, we assume Zauner is working on applications that go far beyond the lab, which will
inevitably result in a light-controlled slime-bot army slowly slithering its way to world domination.
posted Feb 14th 2006 3:52PM
..and for half the year Alaska will be our only safe haven. It will be a lot like the Pitch Black movie. When the lights are out, and the weather is most, you're toast. When the sun's out wer're all free.
Can't light-sensing diodes already do this? So what's the purpose of using organics? Just to show that it can be done?
I for one welcome our new yellow slime-mold overlords.
I wish I was advanced enough to control a robot like that slime. I bow to such genius.
Wow, Ghostbusters 2 anyone?
Slime has so many uses.
4 words "ugly walking coffee table"
There are times when I wish I could just give my body to some scientists and quit worrying. I could be a cool robot with no worries.
It may be an "Ugly Walking Coffe Table", but I challenge you to invent a coffee table with such wide-scoping conversational possibilities.
Hollar, sentient robots are here to stay!
Coffee table? How small are you guys?
A slime approaches...
Ahhh yes.... The Mark I Travel Machine..... For the future of the Kaled people!