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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. metrobots by suhit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about the Metrobots that are Sony AIBO robots used as embodied multi-agent systems that play robotic soccer too.

    They are planning to enter the RoboCup American Open at CMU in Spring of 2003 and hoping to participate in RoboCup 2003 in Padua Italy.

    Suhit

  2. culture comentary by wornst · · Score: 5, Interesting

    " . . . making him, he says, the neighborhood geek in a black culture where adolescents rewarded only athletes and tough guys."

    I don't know how to respond from this observation in the article. On one hand being a "geek" in middle/high school really sucks. On the other hand, is it "black culture" that doesn't like geeks, or "white" culture that has traditionally railroaded blacks into those two categories? I definitely don't want to play the race card here. I just thought the observation in the article was interesting.