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[After Gutenberg] Rich Cooper was quoted in another recent post, the idea of 100 small military units capable of fully autonomous flight and filled with explosives closing on an enemy target like a swarm of mad bees is truly terrifying. While such behavior is somewhat futuristic, Linux Devices (May 16, 2005) informs that the Gridswarm project already has demonstrated such capabilities. The proverbial “fly-on-the-wall” is now a robot fly spy camera. Peeping Blimp will be coming to a window near you soon!

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[Jcwinnie.biz] After Gutenberg » Blog Archive » Playground Patrol Droid: Dr. Rich Cooper, a professional engineer with a PhD in robotics who has been working on robots for over twenty years, informs that a polymer R/C blimp can be transformed into a robot with the addition of sensors and computational hardware. “I think they are a great way to experiment with obstacle avoidance and machine-based decision making,” he writes. “You can go straight to the machine intelligence and skip the engineering of a mobility platform.” Add a PTZ digital camera to such a robotic airship and presto, you’ve got “Peeping Blimp”.

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