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How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity?

Posted by timothy on from the terrible-secret-of-space dept.

ceview writes "Researchers at Sheffield Centre for Robotics have demonstrated that a swarm of 40 robots can carry out simple fetching and carrying tasks. This is done by grouping around an object and working together to push it across a surface. They believe that this could provide opportunities for us mere humans to harness such power to do all sorts of things like safety — what like catching falling workers perhaps? Youtube action here."

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  1. Tora Bora by Tailhook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The next time we need to hunt down someone in a cave complex we can use a drone swarm to autonomously explore all the holes. We'll only need the giant thermobaric bombs once the right caves are identified.

    Yay drone swarms.

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  2. once apon a time by Osgeld · · Score: 1, Interesting

    most inventions were made out of necessity to solve a problem, now we make shit and sit there looking at it going "wut now?"