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Cyberbees Score MIT Prize

Posted by timothy on from the to-avoid-the-sting dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Damn news sites! by nwanua · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go:

    http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/

    I found this a while ago while doing something similar in distributed computing.

  2. military apps by wattersa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just wait until they turn this into a distribution system for chemical weapons or a way to conduct surveillance in cities. A swarm of the other side's robots coming at you? I'd either be running for cover or pulling out the shotgun, depending on how many there were. Great...