DesignLife 2006 offers treasure from the deep: robotic lobsters that scuttle and scrape around like the real thing, which is, as it happens, perfectly adapted to travel on the sea bed.
The Robolobster can, in short, go where we can't, checking out toxil spills, mine-strewn channels and other dangerous submarine locales. Created by the Marine Science Center of Northeastern University's Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program, the 'bots are crafted to closely mirror their real-life counterpart's neurophysiology and behavior: adopt, adapt, improve.
And by "improve" I mean "needs chattering mandibles duckwebbed with mucoidal strands of human blood, and a laser."
Robotic Lobster de-mines the deep [TechDigest]
