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Xerox PARC Working On Modular Robots

Posted by Hemos on from the build-with-construtix dept.

An reader writes "I was watching Discovery Channel Canada last night, and they had a story about modular robotics that is being researched at Xerox PARC. Rather than build a single, large robot, project leader Mark Yim is working on small, autonomous bots that can work together to achieve a desired goal. When many of this bots are linked together, they call the result a polybot. "

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  1. The Unix paradigm? by larien · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Isn't this similar to how Unix does things? Instead of monolithic applications (*cough* MS *cough*), we have a number of smaller apps that can be linked to do something else (i.e. awk, sed, grep, find etc).