Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine brings us one step closer to controlling giant robots with our bodies and minds. This prototype is designed for a Madagascan hissing cockroach, whose slightest motion drives the movements of the relatively giant mechanism to which it is physically attached. C.C.A.M. was but one of the entries at ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, “an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots.” However, according to Keith Malley, founder of Humans United Against Robots (H.U.A.R.), combining cockroaches with robots is a double nail in humanity’s coffin.

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