Nature versus Robot


	Nature versus Robot

wildcat

2-25-2008 7:05 AM

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2-25-2008 5:07 PM

ratilfar

Wow!

3-2-2008 8:07 AM

syncopath

Wee!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0d878393-cd93-4976-acc1-0d8eda5a5f9e/5F41482F-86F8-4E8D-B2D7-DC35446860F9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/66383F57-767B-4BB4-801C-7438A043CCE9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/CE0B1AEC-47DF-49B7-8192-34190904A8A5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html">This could just be the first of many battles to come between natural flying predators, and man-made flyers inspired by nature.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html"><DIV><A href="http://www.flytechonline.com/dragonfly_index.html" linkindex="3">Robotic dragonfly toys</A> made by WowWee Robotics are being snatched by birds of prey. One boy had his grabbed by a Red-tailed hawk not long after unwrapping one on Christmas day. You can <A href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/dragonfly-vs-hawk/656206/" linkindex="4">read his account of the event</A>. <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/wowwee-dragonfly-bots-being-hunted-by-hawks/" linkindex="5">Engadget reports</A> that WowWee has been contacted by 45 people about the same issue in the past two months.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html"><DIV>There are bats, birds and other insects out there that will find it a cinch to catch robot butterfly's, mechanical birds or even <A href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/cyborg_chipped_terminator_moths_aiee/" linkindex="8">cyborg moths</A>. It will be a long time until our artificial flyers will be anywhere near a match for Nature's airbourne hunter-killers.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/nature-versus-robot.html"><DIV>During both world wars pigeons were used to carry messages across enemy lines in Europe, leading to some attempts to use <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcons" linkindex="9">Peregrine falcons</A> to <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/01/99/wartime_spies/263333.stm" linkindex="10">catch the messengers</A>. Perhaps we'll see a resurgence of that tactic if animal-like robots do see active service.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5F41482F-86F8-4E8D-B2D7-DC35446860F9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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