Now Yukio-Pegio Gunji from Kobe University in Japan and a couple of pals have built what is essentially billiard ball computer using soldier crabs. “We demonstrate that swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates when placed in a geometrically constrained environment,” they say.

Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs  - Technology Review (via iamdanw)

Hey, anyone read Accelerando by Charles Stross? Remember the part about sending lobsters into outer space? Not so far fetched, eh?

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Source: technologyreview.com

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