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SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival
PacoCheezdom writes "Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called 'Swarm OS'. The robots are able to work together as a group not by communicating with all members of the group at once, but by talking only to their neighbors, and model other similar behaviors performed by bees and ants. "
I, for one, welcome the new swarming overlords nearest to me, so that they might welcome the rest.
@AlexSheive
Thank you for the welcome! I, for one, welcome the swarming robotic overlord bits below me. Hopefully we can figure out how to build a petrified, robotic Natalie Portman and cover her in naked robotic grits. (Is this possible, considering we can only talk to our neighbors?)
Legalize it.
I feel a beowulf cluster joke coming on...
Robot-1: I heard from Robot-2 that Robot-3 got promoted because she slept with the boss after the Christmas party last year.
Robot-4: I knew something was going on. Robot-3 doesn't even have opposing digits, how can she be qualified for the ball in bucket tests?
With all the advancements and buzz about smarter-than-man AI, and now they're excited about robots as smart as BEES AND ANTS.
10 FILL MUG WITH COFFEE
20 DRINK COFFEE
30 GOTO 10
Simulated robotic orgies.
Eternity is a time bomb.
Professor James McLurkin now goes by the designation "1 of 12".
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I for one welcome the new swarming overlords nearest...oh - I've just received word from the swarm that someone already posted this. Ok how about:
In Soviet Russia, bots swarm...oh - that too? Ok, how about just a simple "Profit?"
I think this swarm thing will take some getting used to
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I, for one, welcome the swarming robotic overlord bits below me as well.
Mmm... Grits...
Imagine a Beow... wait a second...
Can you imagine a bee or wolf cluster of these?
I'll be here all week.
"They said I probly shouldn't fly with just one eye," "I am Bender. Please insert girder."
I'm sitting idly waiting for my parent post to welcome me so that I can pass it on to my children posts.
How are humans and bees/ants/swarms different?
When you put lots of humans together, they get dumber.
My neighbors don't like me. :(
There goes my view of the world.
I know I already replied, but I was just reminded of a quote. I forget whether it was Babbage or von Neumann or whoever, but he had just finished giving a talk about the computer. During the question and answer period a woman raises her hand to ask, "That's all very nice, but of what use is it?" To which he replies, "Madame, of what use is a newborn child?"
I'd be glad if someone could tell me who said this or if it's apocryphal or whatever. I looked on google a bit with no luck.
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"Some are complaining that they can't get to the server..."
They must not be close enough.
Would you say that you "Live for the Swarm?"
Can you be Even More Awesome?!