Japan Obsessed Tercanggih Create Robot Insects

Japan Obsessed Tercanggih Create Robot Insects
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 09:44 wib
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Robot is very small insect which is being developed by scientists at Japan (Photo: AFP).

TOKYO - A type of bee-shaped robots have the ability to track and smell the presence of illegal drugs are hidden. In addition, the robot can also find and identify victims in collapsed buildings.

Maybe that sounds like a fictional screenplay, but in fact the robot image is part of the vision that was developed by Japanese scientists. Yes, they are working to understand the workings of the bees and programmed robots to tasks more specific.

Professor of Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at Tokyo University, Ryohei Kanzaki, has studied the insect brain during a period of three decades and he became a pioneer in the development of robotic insects. Such information is quoted from the AFP, Wednesday (15/7/2009).

"Insects have approximately 100,000 the number of nerve cells in the brain that is only two millimeters in width. The number is much less than humans, but size does not determine everything," Kanzaki said.

The brain is very small insects have the ability to control the activity of flying and acrobatics in the air is very complex. With that ability they can catch other insects while flying. It proves they are creatures with sophisticated software in their brain.

The developers of the robot and then mimic how the brain works are applied to the insect brain for robots. They also observed that the most dominant nerve responds to stimuli and then allows it to be viewed using three-dimensional images that glow.

Kanzaki also expressed to keinginanannnya to make the robot in order to adapt to environmental changes and the weather.

"It's very interesting if we managed to create a robot that has capabilities very similar to a real living thing. They can recognize the smell, crawl, and work like humans. I was preparing for a robot with extraordinary abilities," he said.