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RoboRoach: An unmanned cockroach

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The RoboRoach is a mechanism that can control the movements of a live cockroach using a mobile phone. This electronic circuit developed two students from the University of Michigan, uses the neurons in cockroach antennae to the direct. You can read more on the page relative to the Kickstarter.

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