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Swarming And Hopping Planetary Robots

Posted by Zonk on from the game-over-man-game-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently Dr. Penelope Boston (U. New Mexico) and Dr. Steven Dubowsky (MIT) discussed their NASA advances to develop 'hopping microbots' capable of exploring hazardous terrain, including underground caves and planetary extremes. 'We came up with the idea of many, many, tiny little spheres, about the size of tennis balls (slide show), that essentially hop, almost like Mexican jumping beans. They store up muscle energy, so to speak, and then they boink themselves off in various directions. That's how they move...They behave as a swarm [of 1000s]. They relate to each other using very simple rules, but that produces a great deal of flexibility in their collective behavior that enables them to meet the demands of unpredictable and hazardous terrain.' Test prototypes available in March will initially explore terrestrial lava tubes."

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  1. Re:Poor choice of words? by pen0rdeath · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. Re:oh noes by pen0rdeath · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Re:I, ... (obligatory) by pen0rdeath · · Score: -1, Troll

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  5. Re:oh noes by pen0rdeath · · Score: -1, Troll

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  6. Re:Aeon Flux? by pen0rdeath · · Score: -1, Troll

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  7. Re:Aeon Flux? by pen0rdeath · · Score: -1, Troll

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  8. Re:What would Heisenberg think? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  9. Re:Aeon Flux? by EntropyEngine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it just me, or did I offer this story up months ago, only to have it rejected?