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NPR : Robots Infiltrate, Influence Cockroach Groups

When they put these robots in with the living roaches, they all began to interact. Before long, the robots and cockroaches were huddled together under the same roof. “The robots and the cockroaches behave as a group,” Halloy said.

So then the scientists decided to reprogram the robots and change one of their rules. “We change their preference for darkness,” Halloy said. “We make the robots prefer lighter places than darker ones.”

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Dream Anatomy: Gallery: Fritz Kahn: Man as Industrial Palace

Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)

Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.

Fritz Kahn (1888-1968)

Kahn’s
modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system
as “industrial palace,” really a chemical plant, was conceived
in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s
most advanced.

high resolution here

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