Robot hears by using the ear of a dead locust – Boing Boing

Astute readers will recall the “Smellicopter” from last fall, a robot that used an amputated moth antenna to navigate toward smells.
Robot-insect hybrids seems to be a hot area, because now a team at Tel Aviv University has announced the “Ear-bot”a robot tricked out with the ear of a dead locust, which it uses to hear.
As they explain in their press briefing here, they euthanized a locust, then quickly removed its ear and kept it alive in a small chamber mounted on the robot. This “Ear-on-a-Chip”…

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