Something fun to fret about: the robot itself is a tiny little thing, barely larger than a US cent. http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/05/130502142649.jpg

From the article:

the next steps will involve integrating the parallel work of many different research teams who are working on the brain, the colony coordination behavior, the power source, and so on, until the robotic insects are fully autonomous and wireless.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130502142649.htm What they did not mention is that you could outfit one of these little robots with some kind of poison dart, bringing us much closer to our hunter-seeker than I had anticipated. We are basically there now, assuming these things aren't too noisy. Eric ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5