The scarab beetle is a type of coleoptera noted for rolling dung into spherical balls and pushing it; it is also known for its habit of laying its eggs in animaldung and the bodies of various kinds of dead animals, including other scarabs. Thus, the ancient Egyptians associated the animal with rebirth, renewal and resurrection.
Khepri was a solar deity who pushed the sun (as the scarab pushes the dung) across the sky every day, as well as carrying it safely through the underworld every night.
Alternative forms of the name: Khepera, Kheper, Chepri, Khepra
In China Miéville's books Perdido Street Station and The Scar, Khepri are a species of pseudo-arthropod people, the females being intelligent humanoids having art and culture expressed through biological resin sculptures and an oral history. Female khepri differ from humans in that their skin is crimson in color, and each has a giant scarab for a head. Male Khepri are smaller non-sentient scarabs without the depending humanoid body. The secondary protagonist of Perdido Street Station is Khepri.
Khepera would roll the sun along the sky, much as the dung beetle rolls a ball of dung in front of him (sometimes the Khepera was also shown pushing the moon through the sky).
A Khepera add-on turret for evolutionary experiments in hardware on a single or a group of Khepera robots using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays).
Khepera's on-board processor manages the transfer of data to and from the FPGA.
Much of the causes which are responsible for the evolved signal relationships may not be readily explained as the evolutionary process actively exploits "side-effects" and obscure physical phenomena of the VLSI to improve fitness value.
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