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 [Subtopia] The Entomomechanophilic Army: I know it's only the biggest sci-fi cliché ever, but not just robots like you saw in that stupid Will Smith movie, maybe a new specimen of robotocized intelligent insects will seal our fate, fitted with a nano-chitin armor and new classes of microscopic weaponry attached to their weightless bodies. Little arthropod killing machines buzzing around the battlefield;

 [Roboticnation.blogspot.com] Robotic Nation Evidence: In Pursuit of Robots: South Korea's goal is to have one in every household by 2015 or 2020: "By 2007, networked robots that, say, relay messages to parents, teach children English, and sing and dance for them when they get bored, are scheduled to enter mass production. Outside the home, they are expected to guide customers at post offices, or patrol public areas, searching for intruders and transmitting images to monitoring centers.

 [Aaai.org] AI in the news: "Ground, aerial and aquatic emergency response robots from across the country will face realistic urban search and rescue challenges April 4-6 at Disaster City near the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. The event, hosted by Texas A&M Engineering and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) urban search and rescue team Texas Task Force 1, is the second in a series of robot evaluation exercises for urban search and rescue applications conducted by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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