[wha-net-discuss] Toothbrushes of Perception

[Julian Priest]

**Toothbrushes of Peception**

* What do the earliest perceiving organisms and simple robots have in
common?

Talk and Workshop at The Green Bench

14th December 2009 5.30 - 9.00 pm

Upstairs at the United Friendly Societies Building
67 Guyton Street
Whanganui

Mike Paulin Associate Professor of Zoology at Otago University will give
a talk about the beginings of perception and the evolution of the first
animals and nervous systems over 500 million years ago, relating this to
emergent behaviour in simple robots. He is joined by robotics educator
Andrew Hornblow to lead a bristlebot workshop. Bring an old sloping
bristle toothbrush and learn how to turn it into a small fast moving robot.

Entry $5 + Bristlebot kits $5 + Greenbench soup kitchen $5

Don't forget your sloping bristle toothbrush!

read more: http://greenbench.org/project/toothbrushes