RE: The good ship Extro 1

From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 00:11:26 MDT

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    Anders Sandberg wrote:

    >I can see it now: the hull is covered with climbing insect-bots that
    are
    >controlled by Mike and Spike using a camera pointed at real ant
    colonies
    >(when the bots paint well, the corresponding ant gets food...

    I don't see why not. The use of ants and other insects
    to build things has been highly underutilized. Im not
    really thinking about mechanical ant-bots, but actual
    ants, which we have managed to control by some means,
    in such tasks as recycling materials, in cleaning the
    internals of machines, in carving intricate and otherwise
    unmanufacturable shapes from within, for instance.

    Good thinking, Anders!

    spike



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