Roach Mobile

Garnet Hertz, a grad student from University of California, Irvine, has built a robot that is controlled by a giant Madagascan hissing cockroach. The roach sits affixed on top of a ball that functions similarly to a trackball mouse you use to move the pointer around your computer screen. The cockroach moves the ball, and controls the direction the robot travels. Sensors on the robot detect obstacles in the robots way, and triggers a flash of light into the cockroach's eyes. Cockroaches tend to avoid bright light, and the roach changes direction, causing the robot to change direction. In this contraption, I believe roaches are disposable. Many were harmed in the making of this robot.

One day, when the roaches take over the world, they will get their revenge.