Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01131
To: BEAM List beam@corp.sgi.com, Gadagada@aol.com
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:39:29 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: One of my new bots
Actually all these new people are from the last 'wave' of people from robots
rising. If you notice, right about now everyone's finnaly 'got the hang of
it' and are moving into walker territory and stufff. Interesting! In the
last few months I've gone from being one of the more technical BEAMers to
just another beamer. Nice stuff!
Dennison
>Hello all! Its quite odd, BEAM really has gone under an explosion of
>popularity in the month or so that I've been gone! Anyway, in my hiatus,
I've
>made some very freaky robots. I'm working on one that's based on something
>interesting I learned of about mantis's (manti?). It seems that in their
>simple nervous systems, the nerves that control the motion of their head
are
>not connected with the motions of their legs through nerve-to-nerve
synapses.
>Rather, their head is controlled with one set of nerves which take
information
>from their eyes and point the head in the direction of potential prey. On
>either side of their "shoulders" their are tiny little hairs which, when
>touched, cause the leg nervous system to be stimulated. So, when the head
is
>pointed to the left, the left hairs are stimulated, and the legs strike the
>body to the left. Interesting eh?
>
>
>
>Gary
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