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From: mullen@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Dan Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discover magazine's "Invasion of the Insect Robots"
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.201920.18088@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 20:19:20 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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I find it rather ironic that after almost a half century of research in
"artificial intelligence" we have humbly accepted our limitations and
assumed the task of modeling insects.   I remember reading once that 
a mosquito with its paltry 10,000 neurons is infinitly more intelligent
than our fastest super-computer.  I'm not argueing on either side of that.
My point is simply that modeling insects is a good place to start. Maybe
soon there will be the small rodent robot and then the farm animal robot. 
Maybe an entire robot farm, and then .....       d.m.