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August 31, 2011 10:05 am
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Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves
An anonymous reader writes "The notion of distributed processing isn't new, and its application to robotics leads naturally to the idea of a swarm of robots. However, most swarm-oriented robots are composed of many identical robots (such as The Kilobots). In this case, there are three types of robots: a 'hand-bot,' which can climb bookcases and grab objects with hands; a 'foot-bot,' which can drive around and carry the hand-bot; and an 'eye-bot,' which flies around and perches on the ceiling to provide a perspective to the other bots."Another reader points out an unrelated but also-impressive video of Kinect being used to develop a user-friendly robot assistant. 
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