Moth drives robot car, cruises for a date.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo created the small vehicle, controlled by a moth tethered to a ball, to characterize the moth’s tracking behaviors. The moth successfully drives the car towards a sex pheromone normally given off by a female.
In practice, the team hope to use this work to develop autonomous robots able to track down the source of smells from environmental spills and leaks, when fitted with highly sensitive sensors.
(Source: 8bitfuture)
