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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).

  2. Re:That's not news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah I saw that ages ago.

  3. Re:Destroy Islam. Kill the Muslim Pigs. by hackman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cmon, Genocide? That's GOT to be a bad idea. Take it easy dude.

    REAlly now, I hope you're joking. They haven't even found out who did it yet, just because they suspect Bin Laden is no reason to pass judgement yet.

    Spend more time worrying about our own decreasing freedom in the US..

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  4. goatse.cx changed their page! I can't believe it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    goatse.cx has changed
    their www page. I just can't believe it!