Crabs Power Computers

Computers have been built with silicon and there are proposals for exotic materials such as diamond. But for something really unique, use crabs.

Yukio-Pegio Gunji and Yuta Nishiyama of Kobe University built a simple computer using soldier crabs. Soldier crabs (Mictyris guinotae) live in shallow lagoons in Japan, in colonies with thousands of individuals. They swarm together when they feel threatened and move in unison.

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    I am suitably impressed…
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    I came across an article about this, oh, ages ago* and left the tab sitting open for days and days intending to get...
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    Oh god this is like Deep Rot, the D&D sub-dimensional super computer that runs on the undead. I always thought the...
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    Crabnology 101: