Robotics

The only parasite that functionally replaces an organ. The tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua) is one of the strangest and most disturbing parasites in the animal kingdom. It enters through the gills of a fish and attaches itself to the base of the tongue. It severs the blood vessels, causing the tongue to wither and fall off. Then it replaces the tongue, attaching itself to the stump and functioning like a prosthetic tongue. The fish can still eat and live normally—with the louse acting as its new tongue.

When I think about robotics, here is an example why I can be so distressed with ROS-only kind of thinking.

When I think about robotics, here is an example why I can be so distressed with ROS-only kind of thinking. https://farcaster.xyz/trh/0x3191eea2

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

Kuriyama, Yubari District, Hokkaido, Japan

More generally this is about symbiosis, a mechanism that can explain how we came to be (to a significant extent), and so different from some reductionist views on systems, notably robots and artificial life.