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From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg)
Subject: Insect robot with compound eyes
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I just received an information package from Ublige Software and Robotics
Corporation describing a line of insect based robotic hardware.  Some
products included in their line are:

	Compound Eye Detector Array - an eye composed of 16 
	phototransistors (ommatidia)

	Prometheus - a six legged walking robot using what looks like
	R/C servos for the legs and a pan-tilt head with eyes

	Insecta software - a Windows based visual programming system
	for neural network control of the hardware

They also sell individual componants, data acquisition boards, kits and
plans for various robots and robotic units.  I saw their add in the 
May/June issue of MicroComputer Journal (formally ComputerCraft.)

The system is also described in the proceedings of the second international
conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2):

Luis R Lopez & Robert E. Smith, Evolving Artificial Brains for Artificial
Compound Eye Robotics, From Animals to Animats 2, A Bradford Book, MIT
Press, pp 425-430, 1993.

Their address is:

	US&R
	PO Box 18034
	Huntsville, AL  35804
	Tele: 205-518-9422
	E-mail: usr@delphi.com

Their pricing appears to be very reasonable.


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Karl R Altenburg				altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND  58105

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.  SIR THOMAS BROWNE
