Scientists report connecting the ear of a dead locust to a robot that receives the ear's electrical signals and responds accordingly. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Tel Aviv University's latest project is a robot who is able to hear and respond to vibrational sounds through a dead locust's ear. The post Meet Ear-bot: a Hybrid Robot Using a Dead Locust’s Ear ...

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has taken a different path and created a bio-hybrid robot that "hears" through the ear of a dead locust, a type of grasshopper.

For the new study, the Tel Aviv researchers connected a biological sensor – a locust’s ear – to a robot in place of its usual microphone, allowing it to respond to sounds.

A robot has heard sounds through the ear of a dead locust in a world's first experiment that uses the Ear-on-a-Chip method to create a long-lasting sensory device.

At first, the researchers built a robot that can respond to signals it receives from the environment. Then, they isolated the dead locust’s ear and kept it functional long enough to connect it to the ...

That kind of human-robot interaction, though, is a stepping stone to truly autonomous machines. “When you come down to level 4 and 5 autonomy, the robot here is not only a medical device but ...

Meet Ear-bot: a Hybrid Robot Using a Dead Locust’s Ear to Hear. by Tai Gooden. Mar 3 2021 • 7:39 AM. Robots continue to evolve at an incredibly quick (and kind of disturbing) pace.