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Old 02-03-2012, 09:07 AM   #1
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Swarm bots

I like the surrounding netting to stop the bots 'escaping'.





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Old 02-03-2012, 09:25 AM   #2
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Interesting.

When these things get small, like the size of fruit flies, it's going to make security interesting. You could just fly scores of them into a secure areas and watch/listen. Nobody will have privacy.
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Old 02-03-2012, 09:31 AM   #3
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That's really cool...

Mattel Toys gets first dibs after the military... on the shelves next Xmas
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Old 02-03-2012, 02:28 PM   #4
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Verry Verry cool !!!!!
I can see ALLLLL kind of uses for these Larger and smaller ,
" You fido grab that Beer for me !!"
How ever they sound Angry when correcting their pitch or level
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Old 02-03-2012, 03:10 PM   #5
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We had to do that figure-8 pattern during motorcycle safety training (MSF).
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Old 02-03-2012, 03:21 PM   #6
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Has no-one read Michael Crichton's Prey?!
(don't blame you, it's formulaic)

They will escape.
And they will do bad things to people.
Although preferably in the desert so the world doesn't end before the end of the movie.
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Old 02-03-2012, 06:01 PM   #7
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Has no-one read Michael Crichton's Prey?!
(don't blame you, it's formulaic)

They will escape.
And they will do bad things to people.
Although preferably in the desert so the world doesn't end before the end of the movie.
I have.

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Old 02-03-2012, 06:26 PM   #8
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Wow, that is some incredible engineering. Very cool.
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Old 02-03-2012, 11:43 PM   #9
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I like the surrounding netting to stop the bots 'escaping'.
You mean the "Sky Net"?

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Old 02-04-2012, 12:47 AM   #10
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HAR HAR !!
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Old 02-04-2012, 08:25 AM   #11
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Has no-one read Michael Crichton's Prey?!
(don't blame you, it's formulaic)

They will escape.
And they will do bad things to people.
Although preferably in the desert so the world doesn't end before the end of the movie.
I read it too. You're right about being formulaic. Once these babies are actually nanotech and self-replicating then we can get nervous.
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Old 02-04-2012, 11:49 AM   #12
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I want to do THAT for a living!
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Old 03-03-2012, 11:26 AM   #13
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These little guys are very talented!!!


Robot helicopters perform James Bond theme music

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab wowed attendees at this year's TED conference with a video of tiny robot quadroters performing the James Bond theme music.

You might think that these robots were designed and built by Q himself, but they were actually made by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, and the video made its debut at this years TED conference, which is underway in Long Beach, Calif. The robot band was autonomous; no humans with remote controls were involved. Rather, the tiny four-rotor helicopters were controlled wirelessly by a single computer, which determined their positions using cameras and infrared lights.
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Old 04-23-2012, 09:23 AM   #14
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it was only a matter of time ,
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Old 04-23-2012, 10:02 AM   #15
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it was only a matter of time ,
That's FPSRussia, he has his own gun related Youtube channel.
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