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Video: Drone Swarm Assembles Itself, Terrifies Humanity

Posted June 09, 2010 11:57 AM

From Gizmodo:

For those of you counting down to the robot uprising, you may be interested in the latest news from engineers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. They've created autonomous robots that randomly dock with each other.

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Re: Video: Drone Swarm Assembles Itself, Terrifies Humanity

06/10/2010 12:27 PM

very interesting... but very easy compared to a 3d inflight dock.. that will be orders of magnitude more difficult...

and as for advances in robotics being something to be afraid of... every advantage for the robot side is created by the human side... so we have every advantage they have, plus the fact that we are the creators, and can learn, improve, and create more. I don't think the robots can even operate a hand drill.

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