Bugbots

HollyMinkowski

The idea to power these from sources like power lines or machinery movement is interesting.

video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html

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kwinn

I fin the whole idea scary. Don't believe for one second that the government could resist abusing the technology and shudder to think of what others would do with it when they get hold of it.

Please note I said WHEN, not if others get hold of it.

erco

Imaginative, but not in our lifetimes. Nothing exists right now to support a single claim of that whole fanciful scenario. Neither size, stealthiness, efficiency, power density, autonomous control, intelligence, jam-proof-ability, sensing ability, computing ability, nor weapons delivery are anywhere near the required level. Certainly, people will make steady progress in some of those areas, but throwing out a swarm of bird-bots or bug-bots to do intelligent autonomous mobile covert surveillance is well beyond the realm of reality for a while.

Fortunately, we'll be driving hover cars and living on the moon base long before this happens !

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sam_sam_sam

I would like to know how much of what they showed in that video that they can do now

Some of it may not be·so far fetch as you might think



Certainly, people will make steady progress in some of those areas,..........



I find the whole idea scary. Don't believe for one second that the government could resist abusing the technology and shudder to think of what others would do with it when they get hold of it.

It scare me to think· what they can do now and what they want to do in the next 10 years and beyond

·Here is an example· of what I am talking about

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Computational Ghost Imaging...Quantum camera snaps objects it cannot 'see'··

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Post Edited (sam_sam_sam) : 12/20/2009 2:35:14 PM GMT

RiJoRi

erco said...
Imaginative, but not in our lifetimes.
Fortunately, we'll be driving hover cars and living on the moon base long before this happens !

I remember my mother telling me, back around '68, that when she was a girl in the 30's, people said "Men on the Moon? Not in my lifetime!"

BTW, do you own something like Capt. Kirk's communicator? But with more features?

--Rich

HollyMinkowski

erco said...
Imaginative, but not in our lifetimes

Ray Kurzweil and I beg to differ

Tech is increasing exponentially now.
Stuff like these bugbots will seem quaint in just 15yrs.
Things like these will be freebies found inside cereal boxes
for the kiddies to play with.