Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03557
To: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:27:23 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Rollerbots (was: Star Wars Ep1...)
>
>
> Furthermore, whether or not pillbugs are robots or not is irrelevant -- by
> the same argument, one could say that Mark Tilden's finding inspiration in
> the biological world is equally valueless. I, for one, am not willing to
> make that argument.
Why not take advantage of the solutions already found in nature?
There is a lot to be learned from the design and behavior of insects that can be
directly applied to small robots. All those millions of years of evolution, of
no
value?
Can you explain why not?
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