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The following is an excerpt from a handout prepared for
Entomology 111: Insects and Human Affairs at the
University of California/Davis.
Having heard of the German team's preliminary success with their
bee, Dr. Frankinsect rushes to complete his own work,the
first fully functional antroid .
An "android", as any science fiction fan could tell you, is a mechanical human. The root of the word is the Greek andros meaning "man". A similar root is found in the word "anthropoid", meaning "man-like", which is used to describe our distant ancestors and some of the great apes such as the gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees. The word should not be confused with "arthropod", meaning "joint-foot",which describes the (probably polyphyletic) group of hard-shelled invertebrates comprised, principally, of the Crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimp, etc.), Chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, ticks, etc.), and Uniramians (millipedes, centipedes, insects, etc.).A robotic bee has recently been used to direct bees to a floral source in order to test the dance-language of honeybees (see Moffett, M.W. 1990. "Dance of the Electronic Bee." National Geographic . Vol. 177(1), pp. 134-140
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