Floor-Wiping Worm Robot Provides Crucial Missing Link in Robotic Fossil Record
In animal terms, the Fukitorimushi floor-cleaning robot would be the Roomba’s distant evolutionary ancestor. It wipes instead of vacuums, inches rather than rolls, and generally looks like it wriggled right out of the primordial soup. Of course, the actual Roomba-Fukitorimushi chronology is totally different: despite its Palaeozaic sensibilities, the Fukitorimushi (“wipe-up bug”) is brand new.…
