Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves 41
An anonymous reader writes "The notion of distributed processing isn't new, and its application to robotics leads naturally to the idea of a swarm of robots. However, most swarm-oriented robots are composed of many identical robots (such as The Kilobots). In this case, there are three types of robots: a 'hand-bot,' which can climb bookcases and grab objects with hands; a 'foot-bot,' which can drive around and carry the hand-bot; and an 'eye-bot,' which flies around and perches on the ceiling to provide a perspective to the other bots."
Another reader points out an unrelated but also-impressive video of Kinect being used to develop a user-friendly robot assistant.
There was no "hello" - it's vaporware (Score:5, Insightful)
I doubt any of this will exist anytime soon. We still can just barely manage to get the desktops in the lab to cooperate with each other on most apps. And it is just software, and they are connected with cables, which are more reliable and higher transfer speeds. Or is there anyone here who manages to use distributed processing on most apps on their desktop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing [wikipedia.org]