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Plasmobot: the Slime Mould Robot Monday, September 07, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Robots   
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Though not famed for their intellect, single-celled organisms have already demonstrated a surprising degree of intelligence. Now a team at the University of the West of England (UWE) has secured GBP228,000 in funding to turn these organisms into engineering robots. In recent years, single-celled organisms have been used to control six-legged robots, but Andrew Adamatzky at UWE wants to go one step further by making a complete "robot" out of a plasmodium slime mould. (source: newscientist.com)
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