Killer bot brings down the hurt on ticks

So it might not be quite the kind of aggressive behavior we were expecting from our future robotic overlords, but the Autonomous Tick-Collecting Robot seems like a step in the right direction. The bot can follow the path of a tube that releases carbon dioxide to attract the ticks, which are then killed by the denim skirt that Tick Rover drags behind, which is soaked in an insecticide. In tests the bot managed to nab 72 out of 75 ticks placed in a field, making it an effective control on ticks while causing minimal environmental damage or inconvenience to users.

[Via Hack-A-Day]