May 31, 2005
Rise of the Machines?
"The goal of iRobot's swarm project is to coordinate the actions of groups of hundreds of individual robots. A Swarm Operating System (SwarmOS) is under development to control as many as 10,000 robots or SwarmBots."
Oh sure, they're cute now......
But just consider what they tend to grow up to be....
Yeah, I'd say this article o-fficially gives me the creeps.
Fearful Yips! to the Pious Agnostic.
UPDATE:
"The human...must...be....destroyed..."
Yes, indeed. Scary stuff. Yips! to Colossus for reminding me.
Intruder alert! Intruder alert!
These are the guys (actually a woman at the scientific helm) that make the bomb robots they are using in Iraq. They also make that handy little vacuum that roams the house. Of course DARPA is behind it all...
Posted by: LB buddy at May 31, 2005 07:08 PMDanger Robert Llamabutcher! Danger!
Posted by: Beck at June 1, 2005 09:14 AMI for one welcome our new robot overlords.
Posted by: rbj at June 1, 2005 09:14 AM