inappropriate biotech

Christ, it ain't bad enough we got bird brains on the road, now we gotta roll wit bugs drivin fuckin tanks! This giant cockroach driving a chariot in the lab is acting like yer typical young buck behind the wheel of a vehicle with mag wheels...And they wonder why um scared ta travel...
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Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot:
Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

conceptlab.com/roachbot

...Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War. Jeffrey A Lockwood, Oxford University Press (2008)...

...[Q:]Have you noticed the cockroach change its behavior because it's in the machine? How has it adjusted?

[A:] At some moments, it appears as if the cockroach is "adapting in" to the system. In other words, behaving in a way that would indicate that it thinks that the robot control system is "real". There are other times that it appears the cockroach couldn't care less about the lights shining toward it and seems to enjoy driving the robot directly into walls at full speed...
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