Smallest Autonomous Untethered Robot Ever Created

An anonymous reader sent in linkage about itty bitty research robots. Less then a quarter inch cubed, and includes a camera, microphone, and cute little treads. Includes cheesy picture of the robot turning on a dime. I guess if I had a few million of them, they could clean my living room or something, but for now this looks like pure research and not much of anything useful.

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Careful of those little buggers

[Cubic_Spline]

I see unprecedented possibilities for human mind control. One of those things crawls inside your ears or nose and latches onto your brain stem and *WHAMMO*. I'm serious, I swear, I saw something like this on Star Trek once....

cool

[omega_rob]

I'd use an army of those bad boys to conduct covert ops from my cube. Spying on board meetings at the office, gathering incriminating evidence on my enemies, that sort of thing. I bet if you had enough of them you could use them for more insidious purposes, like political assassinations and infiltrating the dread pirate Napster headquarters. That'd be cool. Wrong, somehow, but cool.

omega_rob

Re:but could they...

[Dr.Dubious DDQ]

can they moderate on /.

I think if you read the article the answer is obviously "no". They run on batteries, not crack!

(Says the guy that just used up 5 moderator points... :-) )

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