[Vo]:"Robotic insects make first controlled flight"

[Eric Walker]

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

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