Get ready, battlefields, yet another iRobot is gearing up to you all in the storm. Did today announced the above outfit received an award under the DARPA LANdroids program, allowing them to "develop a new communications relay portable robot, which is small, inexpensive, robust and intelligent." The resulting creature is reported to be in "dense urban environments to quickly implement and maintain a vital communications infrastructure, and better still, they are hard enough for the position and intelligent enough to" self-identify obstacles and to avoid during navigation. "Unfortunately, it appears that the conclusion of the project is said that a few more years, but we can always antsy soldiers saw that they never be forced to say "can you hear me now ?" again.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
posted by Andrew at 12:34 AM
Get ready, battlefields, yet another iRobot is gearing up to you all in the storm. Did today announced the above outfit received an award under the DARPA LANdroids program, allowing them to "develop a new communications relay portable robot, which is small, inexpensive, robust and intelligent." The resulting creature is reported to be in "dense urban environments to quickly implement and maintain a vital communications infrastructure, and better still, they are hard enough for the position and intelligent enough to" self-identify obstacles and to avoid during navigation. "Unfortunately, it appears that the conclusion of the project is said that a few more years, but we can always antsy soldiers saw that they never be forced to say "can you hear me now ?" again.