Can you GRASP This?
University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) lab revealed a video showing a lab swarmed by "nano quadrotors," which is science talk for "really tiny flying robots."
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Their size alone makes them remarkable Things, but their programming is even more astonishing. They're incredibly agile and precise. If you fling one into the air, it stabilizes itself and flies back to you. Fly a bunch of them together and they can perform amazing feats -- in formation. Watch this:
What looks like a swarm of giant flying insects is actually a highly coordinated group of robots that might one day be programmed to work as a team on search and rescue missions, military surveillance missions and maybe even enter the "hostile environment" of space. I just hope they don't teach the little buggers to bite.
See you next week,
Bobby




































