Tâche, FabienAsadpour, MasoudCaprari, GillesKarlen, WalterSiegwart, Roland2006-02-212006-02-212006-02-21200510.1109/ROBIO.2005.246321https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/225225WOS:000241317800095This paper describes the hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot, in size of a match box, that is able to interact with cockroaches. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedicated to hardware processing and behavior generation. It is also equipped with 12 infra-red proximity sensors, 2 light sensors, a linear camera and a battery that allows 3 hours autonomy. The robot can discriminate cockroaches, other robots, environment boundaries and shelters. It has also three means of communication: a wireless module for monitoring and logging, an IR remote receiver for fast supervision of biological experiment and a simple local communication protocol via infrared proximity sensors to detect robots in short range.LEURREtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper