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    Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World

    Army of Flea-Sized Robots to Do Our Bidding in the Future

    Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents

    Spacecrafts to Unravel Earth's Mysteries or Destroy It
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/16/09

    In reply to Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World
    I could not sleep knowing these things were in my house....plotting against me in evil league with the monsters that already live under my bed. Thanks, No. #opensourceswarmrobots
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/16/09

    In reply to Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World
    Now there's a set of micromachines I wouldn't mind collecting.. #opensourceswarmrobots
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/16/09

    In reply to Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World
    Meh, it'll be fine unless they're the kind of robots that make more robots that make more robots that make more robots... #opensourceswarmrobots
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    Image of firewhisper firewhisper
    11/16/09

    In reply to Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World
    Swarms to take over the world.... what do they do? #opensourceswarmrobots
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    11/16/09

    @firewhisper:

    1. Swarm
    2. ???
    3. Profit! #opensourceswarmrobots
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    11/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: The answer was in front me all along. Its just so simple! #opensourceswarmrobots
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/16/09

    In reply to Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World
    Well they could probably cut the cost down if they didn't use coins for wheels. #opensourceswarmrobots
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/16/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked: But they're foreign coins. Surely they're worth nothing at all! #opensourceswarmrobots
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    11/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: €1 is currently worth $1.5 dollar, that is 50% more than when the euro was introduced 10 years ago.

    Spend less on war I say... or get cheap open source robo's to waterboard all of them. #opensourceswarmrobots
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/16/09

    @j05hu4: You will not break through my barrier of stereotypical American ignorance. Pshaw #opensourceswarmrobots
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Swarm of Cheap Open Source Robots Set to Take Over the World
    I would've guessed Bender's hors d'oeuvres

    I wouldn't mind having an ever expanding army of nanite drones.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 11/16/09 4:10 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    08/28/09

    In reply to Army of Flea-Sized Robots to Do Our Bidding in the Future
    Fodder for my nightmares.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/28/09

    In reply to Army of Flea-Sized Robots to Do Our Bidding in the Future
    But many robots communicating with each other using infrared sensors and interacting with their environment can form a group that is capable of establishing swarm intelligence to generate more complex behavior.

    This seems incredibly pie-in-the-sky, no? Like someone saying "oh, we'll just hook up a trillion processors in parallel and BAMMO a human brain will result".
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    Image of met2art met2art
    08/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Well, they aren't saying it'll become Skynet. The idea is that since they each have rudimentary sensor arrays and onboard processing, that by communicating and sharing aggragate data, they can form more complex analyses.

    One robot can only see in its own narrow field of vision, but 500 of them can not only "see" in a full 360 view, but also have full situational awareness of themselves and other potential obstacles, and all provide each other with better pathing and decision algorithms.

    It's a neural-network teamwork system. The more you add, the better the pathing and decision-making branching has the potential to become. But, as far as learning, understanding and comprehending the world is concerned... still a way to go on that score.
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    08/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: "swarm intelligence" != artificial sentience.

    software simulations of swarm intelligence are simple, while the turing test remains unpassed. it's nothing more than intercommunication coordinated towards a common goal that can only be achieved (or is more easily achievable) with many separate instances working cooperatively. if all the little guys were physically tied to each other to facilitate that communication, the effect would be the same (though the wires would cause extra limitations on the possible arrangements of the bugs) but likely wouldn't be labeled as 'swarm intelligence' because the individual instances would not be physically autonomous, and would not resemble a 'swarm' but rather a single, multi-appendage device.
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    Edited by nutbastard at 08/28/09 6:42 PM nutbastard was starred nutbastard was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/28/09

    @nutbastard: Well true, it would let them do different things, but is that the same thing as having a more complex behaviour? They'd be able to do the same kind of tasks, just more efficiently or powerfully. But I can't understand how the simple act of hooking lots of tiny processors together would create some sort of "gestalt" ability. Or maybe that's not what the researcher is saying.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/28/09

    In reply to Army of Flea-Sized Robots to Do Our Bidding in the Future
    "Attack my mighty army of computer chips!"
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    Image of Glen Mitchell Glen Mitchell
    08/28/09

    In reply to Army of Flea-Sized Robots to Do Our Bidding in the Future
    swarm intelligence is a bit frightening
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    Image of met2art met2art
    08/28/09

    @Glen Mitchell: Perhaps, but still not as scary as individual idiocy.
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    08/28/09

    In reply to Army of Flea-Sized Robots to Do Our Bidding in the Future
    Wow, Flea Circuits time!
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    08/28/09

    @met2art: very nice. +1
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    Image of Effing_Jedi_Master Effing_Jedi_Master
    12/18/08

    In reply to Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents
    And this is how Terminator started. Damned robot apacolpyse!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/18/08

    @Effing_Jedi_Master: I'm so glad that each and every post about robots gets a comment reply about Terminators. It makes me so happy that there's a wide future of humankind ahead of me which is so consistent. SO HAPPY.
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    Image of 1lolthatsall 1lolthatsall
    12/18/08

    In reply to Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents
    I can see how Pedobear would use these child dragging swarmbots to his advantage.


    Imagine; "A girly sleepover, a bed... You see little robots come from within the dark confines under the bed... The swarmbots attach themselves to unsuspecting little girls, pulling them to their doom, pulling them to pedobear."


    Hehe [pedobear.org]

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/18/08

    @1lolthatsall: Alright cowboy. Take it back to 4Chan.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    12/18/08

    In reply to Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents
    I pity the poor graduate student who was forced to assemble all those robots.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    12/18/08

    In reply to Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents
    Ok, so without knowing what is going on in the back end. The concept of it dragging a body across the floor is retarded, it's like a bad horror movie. Now my assumption is the robots really were working on their own and just going and linking up with the other robots by themselves. If that is the case that is pretty cool, but why the heck have like 20 robots doing what one or two robots could do? Guess they have money to blow. And only the swedish would come up with bright shiny colors for there robots.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/18/08

    @dimsum4u: It's obviously so the little robots can fit into tighter spaces to drag the child out to where the 20 foot chainsaw-fisted master robot waits.
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