How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity? 67
ceview writes "Researchers at Sheffield Centre for Robotics have demonstrated that a swarm of 40 robots can carry out simple fetching and carrying tasks. This is done by grouping around an object and working together to push it across a surface. They believe that this could provide opportunities for us mere humans to harness such power to do all sorts of things like safety — what like catching falling workers perhaps? Youtube action here."
Tora Bora (Score:4, Interesting)
The next time we need to hunt down someone in a cave complex we can use a drone swarm to autonomously explore all the holes. We'll only need the giant thermobaric bombs once the right caves are identified.
Yay drone swarms.
once apon a time (Score:2, Interesting)
most inventions were made out of necessity to solve a problem, now we make shit and sit there looking at it going "wut now?"