European scientists developed Insbot, an electronic cockroach that can trick real cockroaches into following it. The Insbot was developed under the European project LEURRE. The project aimed to study, model, and control mixed societies of animals and robots. The Insbot is very small, measuring at 19 by 30 by 41 millimeters cubed. It doesn’t even look much like a cockroach… it’s just a box.
The way it fools cockroaches is by sending out signals with its sensors. It can communicate with other cockroaches and get them to follow its lead.
The scientists chose an American cockroach, because it is so small. They studied the processes and means of communication between cockroaches and worked from there. The result was pretty amazing, don’t you think?
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