The Anthill Social

Meet engineers and designers who are blurring boundaries between technologies and your body. What counts as a hybrid life form and how might it affect you?
Read more via the event homepage.

Jan 22, 2008 @ 7pm
www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2008/01/22/354
Free. Need to book via tickets@danacentre.org.uk

Notes from the event
Bristol Robotics Lab (John Greenmans work): www.tinyurl.com/2agwpu
- Robots running off what they eat.
- Microbial Fuel cells.
- Ecobot ii (Worlds first robot with complete digestive system).
- Waste products make the fuel cell stop working.
- Prototype built with foam body.
- Currently energy conversion efficiency is poor.
- Potential uses:
-- Sewer bot.
-- Mechanical pest control

IBE Reading University
Culture of cells influenced by sonar data.
Closed loop of: Sensors, Cells, Actuators.
Applications:
- Prosthetics.
- Communications.
- Understanding networks & Neurons.
- Biological.
- Extending & transferring life.
- Other groups doing similar: Potter group (www.neuro.gatech.edu/groups/potter/MEART.html)