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Bots

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

“Sometimes you feel like you just want to pet them,” says one of the computer scientists who works at SRI International, speaking of the more than one hundred little red robots (called Centibots) that wander the company’s halls as part of a military project funded by DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Centibots are designed to conduct surveillance in hazardous areas, spot intruders, and so forth. One of the project’s leaders explains: “They autonomously decide
where to go. Nobody is controlling them… A commander could tell the SWAT team, ‘You are looking at this, and here is the guy we want and this is what he is wearing.’” The Centibots cost about $4,000 and are built from off-the-shelf components, including ordinary WiFi cards for communicating with each other and cheap PC cameras that send images humans can interpret. 

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Posted by emily chang on 12.03.03
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