Comments on: The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/the-first-wireless-flying-robotic-insect-takes-off Safeguarding Humanity Fri, 18 May 2018 18:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Philip Raymond https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/the-first-wireless-flying-robotic-insect-takes-off#comment-319974 Fri, 18 May 2018 18:49:08 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/the-first-wireless-flying-robotic-insect-takes-off#comment-319974 Who among us remember “Prey” by Michael Chichton. A swarm of these electronic flying bugs were mesh-networked together and drew power from sunlight. (At night, the swarm lost coherence and collapsed to the ground). But during coherence, they eventually gained sentience with goals that did not allign with their human creators. (And there lies a plot)!

To communicate with humans, the swarm would assemble into a single human-shaped android and fashion temporary vocal chords from their constituant flea-sized robots. Crichton did a terrific job of explaining how the bot would occassionally go fuzzy (out of focus), as the micro-constituents lost repositioned or compensated for communication delays.

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