Insect Robots For Mars Exploration

destructor writes "Thanks to these guys, I found this little robotic article. Aided by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts, flying insect robots are looking at a life on our "little red planet", Mars in order to procure some atmospheric information and samples. Since conventional aircraft are unable to precisely navigate the Mars surface due to very thin air qualities, the robots actually have the ability to "move only their wings rapidly - while the body flies slowly", to ease sample collections." Space.com is carrying a piece on this.

Comments

seems like a good weapon

[Pinball Wizard]

I was thinking small flying robots with a camera attached would be a great way to hunt down people like Osama. Assumming these could be built cheaply enough you could send out hundreds of these to invade caves, scout out undergroud bunkers, etc. Design them so that it doesn't matter if someone manages to take out a few of them as long as some of the bots complete their mission.

Its kind of frustrating with all the modern tech we have not to be able to track down a hiding enemy. Something like this could accomplish our mission a lot quicker and probably save a lot of lives.

Re:Interesting quote

[Anonymous Coward]

this is not a quote from the article

Re:I really think this is the way to go...

[meadowsp]

success of the robotic drones in Afghanistan

So how many Osama's have these drones helped capture then?