Robots With a Sense of Smell
We just cannot fathom how/why researchers come up with some of this stuff. The University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science took frog eggs, inserted insect RNA and ended up with robots with a sense of smell. This compact smelling sensor could be used in the future to detect the differences between chemicals, polluting gasses and hopefully a better class of burgers.
Via PNAS
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Posted by Sheila Franklin at August 30, 2010 9:10 PM
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