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From: pat@cs.strath.ac.uk (Pat Prosser)
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Subject: Re: Discover magazine's "Invasion of the Insect Robots"
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Date: 13 Mar 91 11:24:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.201920.18088@evax.arl.utexas.edu> mullen@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Dan Mullen) writes:
>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.

and then .... Do Robots Dream Electric Sheep?