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Cyberbees Score MIT Prize
DeAshcroft writes "The Boston Globe has a nice story on the winner of this year's Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. 125 infrared-communicating 4.5-inch swarming bee-like robots. Businessweek even covered this one here.
Next year's prize may go to the creator of 4.5-inch long swarming cockroaches."
...for the killer bees to come to us when we can make them ourselves.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
he uses the robot fleet for good. for example sending the fleet over a city and have them steal every Microsoft cd in sight, replacing them with Debian GNU/Linux cd's.
You're here to steal my robot bee, aren't you!
"MIT" and "score"
"James McLurkin and a few assistants built 125 wheel-footed bugs... The machines measure 4.5 inches on a side and communicate with the same infrared technology used by television remote controls."
You need a MIT Doctor to figure out the Lego Mindstorm kit?
From the article :
Sandra Lawson, McLurkin's mother, figured out she had a gifted child at age 2 when her boy stuck a french fry up each nostril during lunch and said, ''Look mom, I'm a walrus.'' Though unimpressed by his nasal hygiene, she was astounded her child knew what a walrus was.
He then smeared the rest of his food all over his face and listed three more Beatles songs.
Sandra wept and thought : 'My boy is truly a genius'.
Sandra Lawson, McLurkin's mother, figured out she had a gifted child at age 2 when her boy stuck a french fry up each nostril during lunch and said, ''Look mom, I'm a walrus.''
That's weird. When I see a kid with something stuck up his nose, 'gifted' isn't exactly the word that comes to mind. It's more like 'doofus'. The only sign of genius would be that he didn't eat the fries afterward.
Those damn news sites! Why don't they ever have pictures of cool stuff?????? Man, I want to see these little guys zipping around, maybe an avi =)))))) Sounds like the ultimate geek toy.
Sandra Lawson, McLurkin's mother, figured out she had a gifted child at age 2 when her boy stuck a french fry up each nostril during lunch and said, ''Look mom, I'm a walrus.''
I remember when, for some unknown reason, I stuck a little wheel from a Matchbox car up my nose and said "Look mom, I'm a Pep Boys." I didn't really say that. If I was a genius I might have said something like that.
I do remember that 4 people had to hold me down at the hospital. I screamed at the top of my lungs as the doctor came at me with what seemed like a meter long pair of tweezers. I think I know what people that have gone through an alien abduction might have felt, but from the other end.
Community college, here I come!
Half a robot bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the robot bee has got to be Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?But can a robot bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire robot bee When half the bee is not a robot bee Due to some ancient injury?La dee dee, one two three,
Eric the half a robot bee. A B C D E F G, Eric the half a robot bee.Is this wretched demi-robot bee,
Half-asleep upon my knee, Some freak from a menagerie? No! It's Eric the half a robot bee!Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee,
Eric the half a robot bee. Ho ho ho, tee hee hee, Eric the half a robot bee.I love this hive, employee-ee,
Bisected accidentally, One summer afternoon by me, I love him carnally.He loves him carnally,
Semi-carnally."Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"A 30-year-old MIT doctoral student won $30,000 yesterday for designing a swarm of little robots..."
Which covers what, about 1 semester at MIT?
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
You know it's the Golden Age of awards shows when even God makes an appearance at some b-list event like this.
I'd like to see these pissy bee-bots bringing a hyperdrive to 800% efficiency. Or evolving into cellular units that are invincible even to our projectile weapons.
Pah.
Umm, their excellent work in the field, and, umm, the work on swarming worms and zombie DDOS attacks wouldn't have been the same without them.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Those aren't bugs... they're features!
Learn to Play Go
''Socially, I suffered tremendously. I couldn't have bought a girlfriend in high school. But I survived by sensing I was on a different course from my peers,'' McLurkin said. ''I knew I had a future.''
At least he isn't bitter...
''Socially, I suffered tremendously. I couldn't have bought a girlfriend in high school. But I survived by sensing I was on a different course from my peers,'' McLurkin said. ''I knew I had a future.''
30 years old, still in school, and won 30k for building a hobby type robot and then duplicating it 124 times. Ya, on a different course alright, the rest of his peers have been working in the real world for 26 years, and have made 40x his prize money in real income. Plus most are married and like to be social.
His mommy sure can be proud of the french fry walrus now.