Computer Built Using Swarms Of Soldier Crabs | 水產百科網

2012年4月14日—Thesoldiercrabswillmoveawayfromanyshadowedareasforfearofbeingmunchedon.Whentwoswarmsofcrabs--orcrabballs--collide, ...

Computer scientists at Kobe University in Japan have built a computer[1] that draws inspiration from the swarming behavior of soldier crabs.

The computer is based on theories from the early 1980s that studies how it could be possible to build a computer out of billiard balls[2]. Proposed by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, the mechanical computer was based on Newtonian dynamics and relied on the motion of billiard balls in an idealized, friction-free environment instead of electronic signals like a conventional computer.

The model was developed to investigate the relation between computation and reversible processes in physics. A channel in this computational system would carry information encoded in the form of the presence or absence of billiard balls. The information is processed through a series of gates which the balls either bump into and eme...