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Watch this moth drive a scent-controlled robot car

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Mad scientists at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo have built a scent-controlled car driven by a silkworm moth. As you can see in the video, the moth walks over an air-supported ball toward an attractive scent (female silkworm sex pheromones, nice). The robot-car thing tracks the ball’s movement using optical sensors, and drives in the same direction.
via Gizmodo

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