Swarms of Microrobots Over Europe?

Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Mini robots to undertake major tasks?,' IST Results describes a EU-funded project which allowed to build several kinds of microrobots in the last three years. These robots are very small (about 1.5 cm by 3 cm), have limited on-board intelligence and are wirelessly controlled by a central robot control system. A follow-on project has already started, with an even more ambitious goal: deploy 'real' swarms of up to 1,000 robot clients. Such robot swarms are expected to perform 'a variety of applications, including micro assembly, biological, medical or cleaning tasks.' Read more for additional details, pictures and references about this follow-on project not described by the article mentioned above."

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What is this bullshit?

[Anonymous Coward]

How many times are you going to try to trick /. readers into going to this asshole's blog?

I'd rather put up with the poor comments at Digg than read this garbage any longer.

Goodbye.

Come on, it's not that bad

[Jesus_666]

The summary contains only one link to primidi.com and that is Roland's name. I'm perfectly fine with an RP story where all relevant links point to sites that aren't RP's blog