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Am I the only one that finds this video from SRI International just a little creepy?
“Like an army of ants, large numbers of micro-robots can be harnessed to run parallel tasks”
Yes, thank you, I can see that very well. But I don’t have to like it. :)
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To be fair, they can’t just crawl up your arm. The micro-robots are controlled by magnetic fields in the printed circuit board substrate they walk on; i.e. they’re on rails! And while they can build amazing high strength trusses, such as in this video, they are a long way from building copies of themselves!
So I guess that’s OK then.
HT: Derek Bracken from the Blacknight sales department spotted this on his lunchbreak :) Thanks Derek!
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Conn Ó Muíneacháin works at Blacknight, Ireland's largest provider of domains and hosting. He's an award-winning radio producer, podcaster and blogger. He's an engineer as well (not the award-winning kind).
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Bella its happening already
James the end is nigh
We’ll all wake up glued to our beds
Creepy Crawly Micro-Robots Swarm and Build [Video] http://t.co/QYjBJVXNnT via @blacknight
Creepy Tiny Robots Swarm & Build http://t.co/QYjBJVXNnT But really there’s no need to worry ’til they start making copies of themselves. OK?