Driving simulator for fruit flies
Written by scottology on May 27, 2010 – 9:31 am -
Read more: www.newscientist.com Discover how the common fruit fly can control a laboratory robot at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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Tags: animals, fly, flyborg, Fruit, newscientist, newscientistvideo, Robotics, robots, science
Posted in Fruit Flies | 25 Comments »
By tehlulz576 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
Holy fuck, that was amazing. I love stuff like that.
By josersimoes on May 27, 2010 | Reply
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By marcuelcajon on May 27, 2010 | Reply
Pretty fucking cool. They need a faster robot though. But very cool. New video game fruit fly adventures
By madjimms on May 27, 2010 | Reply
The robot looks too slow to be of any good.
By AVerbene on May 27, 2010 | Reply
@gustapodesta its a damn fruit fly
By sbeer6er on May 27, 2010 | Reply
waste of your time, what about the fly, lol.
By T3hK3nny on May 27, 2010 | Reply
loool… that’s hilarious and slightly retarded
By lemonaide15 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
wheres the jizz?
By lemonaide15 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
waste of a 1:16 of my wiener
By AsiansAreYummy on May 27, 2010 | Reply
LMAO! That was full of win
By junuplok on May 27, 2010 | Reply
ahaha ..nice
By gustapodesta on May 27, 2010 | Reply
torture
By ulfenstyle on May 27, 2010 | Reply
LOL!
By Markgb3 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
LMAO
By edrizzz1234 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
hahahahaha
By Shrubbs on May 27, 2010 | Reply
Whoa
By mbm13213 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
I don’t know why they call them fruit flies.
They taste like shit.
By oratadin on May 27, 2010 | Reply
yeah, people shouldn’t have fun at work. We’re suppoced to be bored and work like slaves, duh.
By wellyck on May 27, 2010 | Reply
removing flier, it die?
By lionsforlyons on May 27, 2010 | Reply
yay for dorsophila melongaster lol
By TomaCukor on May 27, 2010 | Reply
fucking useless shit all of theese
By YouJustL0stTheGame on May 27, 2010 | Reply
Fixed with electromagnetic impulses.
By hippysasquatch on May 27, 2010 | Reply
umm actually this is very scary technology, imagine a tiny robotic fly spying on your every move.
By AeroStar22 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY!
Flys have legs….
By lovelykiller999 on May 27, 2010 | Reply
Why should they be having fun? That’s not what they are there for. They can have fun when they aren’t working. Sheesh. And I’m sure there are plenty of ways to have fun, while doing something immediately useful.
Although, I suppose you are right. This could have some future application. You never know.