Weekly Robot Roundup (the swarm is here)
Published May 4th, 2007 in Robot News, Weekly Roundup Swarm robotics is an idea whose time has come. If one of the many smaller robots in a swarm fails, then the swarm can still continue. If one bigger more expensive robot is alone and fails, well, then the mission is over. James McLurkin from MIT will be speaking at the Idea Festival in September. McLurkin is a graduate student at MIT and has been studying swarm robotics. Check out his current projects here. Seen here is the swarm. McLurkin was also profiled by NOVA. See a clip at NOVA here. Also, check out the open source micro-robotic project going on in Germany.
Up next this week is military bots. The US Army is testing an autonomous 6 wheeled robot with 1,900 pounds of gear including a machine gun. This MULE(Multifunction Utility Logistics and Equipment) vehicle sounds similar to iRobots R-Gator, except the R-Gator isn’t packing a machine gun. The future envisioned in The Terminator will soon be here. Sounds like we have an autonomous killing machine about to be loosed in the wild. Link via Wired |
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