What shall I be today? (Image: Christian Darkin/SPL)
Editorial: Cyborgs walk like a lamprey, dance like a moth
By tapping into the mind of a sex-mad moth or the spine of a lamprey, robots can track scents or walk like a living organism
A MALE silk moth gets a whiff of pheromones and begins a complex search pattern to track down a potential mate – a brief surge forward, an intricate zigzag, a sweeping loop. For this deluded moth there is no female to find, and its movements…
