This Insect-Sized Flying Robot Is Powered by Lasers
This Insect-Sized Flying Robot Is Powered by Lasers
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 15, 20184m 20s
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Show Notes
In 1989, two MIT artificial intelligence researchers made a terrifying prediction. “Within a few years,” wrote Rodney Brooks and Anita Flynn, “it will be possible at modest cost to invade a planet with millions of tiny robots.” Their paper “Fast, Cheap and out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System,”, argued that small, autonomous “gnat robots” would soon become cheap enough to solve problems en masse.
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