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From: kkoehn@fraser.sfu.ca (Kaari David Koehn)
Subject: Re: MIT Insect Robots
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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 19:35:58 GMT
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kkoehn@fraser.sfu.ca (Kaari David Koehn) writes:

>Briefly:  As put forward in a OMNI interview 
>(way back in Sept.90 or so)
>the MIT insect lab has a philosophy of hardwired instinct-
>driven robots that don't need a "perfect environment" to 
>operate in...A limited set of responses, like an insect, 
>determine its behavior, given a mixture of stimuli.

>I'm VERY interested in whatever emerges from it.
>(aack! Mothra!)
>kkoehn@sfu.ca

just a follow-up: that's OCT. 1988. really old.
They also had instructions to build a photovore with
Radio Shack parts.

