Login to EngCom

Syndicate



Save to del.ico.us Save This Page

Interesting engineering news and general interest to get you through the week.

Your Ad Here

Getting robots of war to act more naturally

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean  
The next generation of military robots won't just be humanoids like the Terminator.

The robots of the future will likely work in concert, like a swarm of ants. Others may creep like spiders or hover like hummingbirds, if the work at the University of Pennsylvania is an indication.

Most of the more than 5,000 robotic devices now in Iraq are remote-controlled, sniffing out explosives or performing other jobs with constant human instructions
Start a conversation
Add NewSearchRSS
Join the conversation
Name:
Title:
UBBCode:
[b] [i] [u] [url] [quote] [code] [img] 
 
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
emoticonemoticonemoticonemoticonemoticon
Security Image

Powered by JoomlaCommentCopyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved.Homepage: http://cavo.co.nr/

Friday 13 June, 2008 04:41 PM
 
< Prev   Next >
Your Ad Here

Midweek Trivia

Get this weeks Midweek Trivia!!


(1st October) 

and challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia. 

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson