I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.
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I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.
To properly study ants I need an ANTROV (ant remote operated vehicle)
This would be a tiny robot. Ant sized, with antenna and cameras and sensors so you can go into the nest and find out what the heck is going on in there!
This is one of the main reasons I follow robotics TBH.
Sadly ant-sized robots will be weaponized as soon as they're created.
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I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.
To properly study ants I need an ANTROV (ant remote operated vehicle)
This would be a tiny robot. Ant sized, with antenna and cameras and sensors so you can go into the nest and find out what the heck is going on in there!
This is one of the main reasons I follow robotics TBH.
Some ants are 3cm long. So it could be that size to start.
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Some ants are 3cm long. So it could be that size to start.
@futurebird i'm pretty sure they have cockroach-sized versions of this
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I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.
To properly study ants I need an ANTROV (ant remote operated vehicle)
This would be a tiny robot. Ant sized, with antenna and cameras and sensors so you can go into the nest and find out what the heck is going on in there!
This is one of the main reasons I follow robotics TBH.
@futurebird But how would dthe antsreact to one of those?
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Some ants are 3cm long. So it could be that size to start.
@futurebird Surgical fibre-optic guided probe, maybe?
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I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.
To properly study ants I need an ANTROV (ant remote operated vehicle)
This would be a tiny robot. Ant sized, with antenna and cameras and sensors so you can go into the nest and find out what the heck is going on in there!
This is one of the main reasons I follow robotics TBH.
@futurebird isn't there a rebecca romijn movie out with a shrink ray
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Some ants are 3cm long. So it could be that size to start.
@futurebird
"So... why is your prototype 10 meters long and 3 meters high?""Imagine the possibilities if we had a whole nest of them!"
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I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.
To properly study ants I need an ANTROV (ant remote operated vehicle)
This would be a tiny robot. Ant sized, with antenna and cameras and sensors so you can go into the nest and find out what the heck is going on in there!
This is one of the main reasons I follow robotics TBH.
Wouldn't the ants attack and destroy it as a nest invader?
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Some ants are 3cm long. So it could be that size to start.
@futurebird now could you make a wireless camera that was, like, tiny enough to hide in a grain of corn or something else that an ant might carry back to the nest. pinhead-sized camera
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@futurebird isn't there a rebecca romijn movie out with a shrink ray
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@TheSecondVariation@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win So pill cameras are about 25mm long and 10mm in diameter, which is about the size of the larger bugs myrmepropagandist mentioned...
If you could make those move somehow you'd be most of the way there.
That said, I don't know how ants would react to a pill with a lamp on it shuffling through their nest, but it'd probably affect whatever ant behaviour you're trying to observe. -
Wouldn't the ants attack and destroy it as a nest invader?
@richpuchalsky @futurebird you gotta make it out of diamond and titanium and every material that sounds cool. that way it will be indestructable.
also if the vehicle is unlike-enough from anything the ants perceive as threats than it should prooobably be fine?
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Wouldn't the ants attack and destroy it as a nest invader?
Maybe. But if you could let it pick up the colony scent they might not care.
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@TheSecondVariation@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win So pill cameras are about 25mm long and 10mm in diameter, which is about the size of the larger bugs myrmepropagandist mentioned...
If you could make those move somehow you'd be most of the way there.
That said, I don't know how ants would react to a pill with a lamp on it shuffling through their nest, but it'd probably affect whatever ant behaviour you're trying to observe.There are some butterflies whose larvae cause ants to carry them into their nest and put them in the brood. I wonder if one could steal some hydrocarbons from the surface of one of those larvae and slather it on a pill camera then the ants would pick it up and take you on a tour.
I guess getting it back might be the issue...
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@futurebird
"So... why is your prototype 10 meters long and 3 meters high?""Imagine the possibilities if we had a whole nest of them!"
I love the way you think.
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@futurebird
"So... why is your prototype 10 meters long and 3 meters high?""Imagine the possibilities if we had a whole nest of them!"
Listen folks either the cameras get smaller or the ants get bigger, you decide how this is going to go.
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There are some butterflies whose larvae cause ants to carry them into their nest and put them in the brood. I wonder if one could steal some hydrocarbons from the surface of one of those larvae and slather it on a pill camera then the ants would pick it up and take you on a tour.
I guess getting it back might be the issue...
"Anita! That's not a baby! That's spyware!"
"Don't be silly, this poor little baby was lying in the sun! suffering. I've brought her inside where she will be safe."
"OK why does she keep flashing like that?"
"She's a little different. I won't let you bully her, Armata."
"You are the most gullible ant in the world. They are spying on us!"
"And just who is 'they' ...."
"I don't know... the ... the ones who spy. Come on it's creepy!" -
"Anita! That's not a baby! That's spyware!"
"Don't be silly, this poor little baby was lying in the sun! suffering. I've brought her inside where she will be safe."
"OK why does she keep flashing like that?"
"She's a little different. I won't let you bully her, Armata."
"You are the most gullible ant in the world. They are spying on us!"
"And just who is 'they' ...."
"I don't know... the ... the ones who spy. Come on it's creepy!"@ClaireH@blahaj.zone @TheSecondVariation@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win
…where did the name 'Armata' come from..?
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@ClaireH@blahaj.zone @TheSecondVariation@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win
…where did the name 'Armata' come from..?
