RE: Picked this up from PC Pro's Website today...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

And this is the website for it!

http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/goto.html?slugbot

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 December 2001 14:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Picked this up from PC Pro's Website today...
>
>
> SlugBot: Slayer of garden pests
>
> Here's a good robotics story for a Friday afternoon. SlugBot,
> which is being developed by UK scientists, is not only
> partial to the odd slug, it can actually live off them.
>
> SlugBot's creator, Dr. Ian Kelly, and a team of scientists at
> the Bristol-based University of West England's Intelligent
> Autonomous Systems Laboratory, are working on a robot that
> can identity the slimy critters at the dead of night, store
> them on board, and carry them back to base where they are
> added to a fermentation tank. SlugBot then plugs itself into
> the fermentation tank where it recharges using electricity
> generated by the slug goo.
>
> At least that's the goal. But so far the SlugBot has only
> managed to pick up a plastic pest off a pile of mud on the
> laboratory floor. Work has now moved to building the
> fermentation tank.
>
> Dr. Kelly has left his prodigy behind and moved onto the CORO
> research group, at the California Institute of Technology,
> Pasadena, California, USA. But SlugBot was recently voted one
> of the best inventions of the year by Time magazine, although
> a worried reader felt moved to point out 'the terrifying
> shadow lurking beside this contraption. It is, after all, a
> machine that draws its power from the consumption of a living
> organism!'
>
>
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