Snails Go west ! Funny TimeLapse from www.time-lapse.fr on Vimeo.
Hat tip to Unique Daily.
“Every evening, after my automatic water system stops, all the snails who where hidden behind flowers go out and go on the grass to make parties, eating and drinking! They move from east to west!”
"Named after Lewis Hamilton's Formula One teammate, Heikki triumphed, leaving his rivals trailing in his slime with a time of three minutes, two seconds.
His owner, 13-year-old Georgie Brown from East Winch, Norfolk, saw him overcome over 200 garden snails battling it out over the 13 inch course in their quest to become World Champion.
The annual event at Congham, near King's Lynn in Norfolk, is over 30 years old, and although there are a number of imitations, it is the only recognised World Championship."
From CNN.com:
"We thought, 'wouldn't it be kind of cool if we could build a robot with the same versatility as snails?'" Hosoi told CNN. "We like to think of them as nature's all-terrain vehicles."Read the article to learn more and check out the video!
Hosoi is part of a growing group of engineers around the world who are turning not only to snails but also other animals, like cockroaches and crickets, as a source of biological inspiration for designing new robots capable of going places and accomplishing tasks that traditional droids have not been able to do before."
