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April 15, 2012 04:05 pm

Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer


mikejuk writes "You can build a computer out of all sorts of things — mechanical components, vacuum tubes, transistors, fluids and ... crabs. Researchers at Kobe University in Japan have discovered that soldier crabs have behaviors suitable for implementing simple logic and hence — with enough crabs — you can achieve a complete computer. The Soldier crab Mictyris guinotae has a swarming behavior that is just right for simple logic gates(pdf). When two crab swarms collide they fuse to make a single swarm — and this is enough to build an OR gate."

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