I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

I don’t care if it’s unreasonable.

To properly study ants I need an ANTROV (ant remote operated vehicle)

This would be a tiny robot. Ant sized, with antenna and cameras and sensors so you can go into the nest and find out what the heck is going on in there!

This is one of the main reasons I follow robotics TBH.

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@futurebird

Sadly ant-sized robots will be weaponized as soon as they're created.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

Some ants are 3cm long. So it could be that size to start.

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird i'm pretty sure they have cockroach-sized versions of this

[thesecondvariation@graz.social]

@futurebird I mean there is pretty small medical equipment that you can swallow that will take pictures of your guts no? Put some phereomones or stuff on that and they carry it to the queen or something like that no?

[anke@social.scribblers.club]

@futurebird But how would dthe antsreact to one of those?

[ersatzmaus@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Surgical fibre-optic guided probe, maybe?

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird isn't there a rebecca romijn movie out with a shrink ray

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird
"So... why is your prototype 10 meters long and 3 meters high?"

"Imagine the possibilities if we had a whole nest of them!"

[richpuchalsky@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

Wouldn't the ants attack and destroy it as a nest invader?

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@futurebird now could you make a wireless camera that was, like, tiny enough to hide in a grain of corn or something else that an ant might carry back to the nest. pinhead-sized camera

[sea1am@mastodon.social]

@TheSecondVariation @futurebird

This.

[thesecondvariation@graz.social]

@Sea1Am @futurebird I think I meant something like this https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/capsule-endoscopy/about/pac-20393366

[jessica_milker@mastodon.social]

@grumpasaurus @futurebird Check availability in your area with your ZIP code.

Don't miss out on limited-time Gift Card rewards.

OKWOW!

Claim Now : https://tinyurl.com/OkWow-Reward-Zone

[claireh@blahaj.zone]

@TheSecondVariation@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win So pill cameras are about 25mm long and 10mm in diameter, which is about the size of the larger bugs myrmepropagandist mentioned...

If you could make those move somehow you'd be most of the way there.

That said, I don't know how ants would react to a pill with a lamp on it shuffling through their nest, but it'd probably affect whatever ant behaviour you're trying to observe.