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Of Ants and Robots

Posted by Zonk on from the both-pretty-much-work-the-same dept.

conJunk writes "The BBC has an interesting story about Ants and their leaderless collective behavior. It goes on to describe these cool little robots called U-bots. They have a super-simple instruction set and if you let them loose in a room full of frisbees it looks, to the casual observer, like intelligent and guided work." From the article: "Being small is going to be a problem. So how can you get a whole bunch of dumb small things doing something smart?"

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  1. **Off topic comment** by d474 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know this is offtopic, but I haven't seen any articles concerning this article: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744 ,39183346,00.htm

    It's about tracking any computer anywhere by fingerprinting system clock variances in the TCP code. WTF? Isn't there a way around this?

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