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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."
Since he seems to be a contributing editor right now, can we just turn off stories submitted by Roland "LOOK WHAT SOMEONE ELSE CREATED THROUGH MY WEBSITE BECAUSE I CAN SUMMARIZE WITH GREAT DEXTERITY AND ADD NO VALUABLE COMMENTARY" Piquepaille? It's like posting links to slashdot on slashdot!
What the fuck?! Can't this guy work for a living? Oh! He's French! That explains it...