By Rachel Metz
02:00 AM Jul. 01, 2005 PT
While most people are concerned with exterminating any roaches inhabiting
their homes, artist Garnet Hertz ensures they can zip around in style.
Taking a cue from technology that looks to biological systems for
inspiration, Hertz has constructed a three-wheeled robotic vehicle that
lets a Madagascan hissing cockroach navigate a room while perched atop
a ping-pong ball.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68015,00.html?twwn_2techhead?headline=When~Cockroaches~Sieze~Controls
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