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Rocket powered insects

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Mon, 2012-07-09 02:43
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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Rocket powered insects
Attending the RSS 2012 conference in Sydney. Lots of stuff that might be useful for synthmorphs and AGIs, but one talk so far has really stood out: Multi-stage micro rockets for robotic insects http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p24.pdf This is part of the RoboBee project: http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/ Rocket powered insects! So fun! What could possibly go wrong? Especially in swarming rocket insects? :-) (Other good talks so far: Towards A Swarm of Agile Micro Quadrotors http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p28.pdf - this is the group who had a swarm play the James Bond theme, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk Turning-rate Selective Control : A New Method for Independent Control of Stress-engineered MEMS Microrobots http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p41.pdf How to move very simple microbots with no brains.)
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Mon, 2012-07-09 03:11
DivineWrath DivineWrath's picture
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... What?!?! Did I read this right? I have the mental image of a rocket attached to a bumble bee right now. I want to know if I read this right or not. Edit: Ok, I read it wrong. They're using robots, not actual insects.
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Mon, 2012-07-09 03:14
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
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"People who think bumblebees can't fly haven't seen my hydrogen-powered scramjet bumblebees!"
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Mon, 2012-07-09 03:53
Decivre Decivre's picture
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Now all we have to do is combine this tech with that "insect-digesting furniture" tech to make robo insects that act like insect terminators and hunt them down throughout your house. That could be awesome.
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Tue, 2012-07-10 04:17
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
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Today my favourite presentation was: What's in the Bag: A Distributed Approach to 3D Shape Duplication with Modular Robots http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p12.html They are trying to make smart grains ("robot pebbles") that link together into a mesh, recognize objects put into them and then making copies: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Robot_Pebbles
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Tue, 2012-07-10 07:22
Anarhista Anarhista's picture
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Arenamontanus wrote:
What's in the Bag: A Distributed Approach to 3D Shape Duplication with Modular Robots http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p12.html They are trying to make smart grains ("robot pebbles") that link together into a mesh, recognize objects put into them and then making copies: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Robot_Pebbles
Cool, couple of years and omnitool is here. So when do we expect this to be put in the drawer like all the 'unwanted' breakthroughs like 3D printing and alike? My bad, people are working on it, just not for everybody to use. Sorry for being cynical, I really like to read about these presentations so keep posting.
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Tue, 2012-07-10 08:44
Decivre Decivre's picture
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Anarhista wrote:
Cool, couple of years and omnitool is here. So when do we expect this to be put in the drawer like all the 'unwanted' breakthroughs like 3D printing and alike? My bad, people are working on it, just not for everybody to use. Sorry for being cynical, I really like to read about these presentations so keep posting.
Hey, don't sell these things short. You can buy a 3d Printer today for less than 2 grand. That's a lot cheaper than paper printers were around the same time in their release cycle.
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