Video Friday: Swarm Bots Work Together To Steal Your Children
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 19 of December , 2008 at 7:26 am
Remember these cute little guys? We wrote about them in August of 2007… They’re swarm robots from Switzerland that have the ability to interact with each other to complete complex tasks that a single bot, or a few bots, can’t accomplish on their own. The neat thing about this particular swarm is that the units can physically grab onto other units, creating what is arguably one big, modular robot.
The swarm is capable of diagnosing and solving problems completely on its own, and somebody seems to have had the bright idea of asking the swarm to figure out how to carry off a poor little girl:
I’m sort of curious where the bots were taking her, and what they were planning on doing with her when they got here there. But on second thought, maybe there are some things I’m just better off not knowing…
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Comment by William Cox
Made Friday, 19 of December , 2008 at 12:27 pm
Is it just me, or does that little girl look like she’s about to burst into tears? How do you find someone to do that?
Wanted: Small female to be dragged along the floor by swarm robots.
Perhaps a mannequin would have been a better choice.
Comment by Iron Man
Made Friday, 19 of December , 2008 at 4:01 pm
apparently when you live in switerzland that’s what u do for fun.
Comment by Деревянный
Made Saturday, 20 of December , 2008 at 11:13 pm
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Comment by СЕО
Made Sunday, 21 of December , 2008 at 11:41 am
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Comment by Asklepiy
Made Sunday, 29 of March , 2009 at 9:11 am
Интересная статья
Comment by Anand
Made Wednesday, 17 of August , 2011 at 5:59 pm
I don’t know, perhaps it wasn’t so sinister. Maybe they wanted to demonstrate the feasibility of using the swarmanoids as rescue robots or something. Perhaps they needed to train them to latch on to vital signs such as body temperature, etc. A robot is like email I guess – you could use it to send pleasant greetings or spam, up to you.
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