Crab-Powered Computer Built By British and Japanese Scientists

CIO Tuesday 17th April, 2012

Techworld - A team of scientists from Japan and England have built a computer that uses crabs as information carriers, to implement basic circuits of collision-based computing. Researchers at Japan's Kobe University and the UK's University of the West of England, Bristol, found that when two swarms of soldier crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities. This behaviour means that swarms of crabs can ...

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