Regarding Centibots

Some links for Centibots. First, the project's main page (and an in-depth document):

http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/
http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/papers/tech-report-dec-2002.pdf

Note that this is a team of 100 robots (thus the "cent" in "centibots"), not 20 as the author suggests.

They're search-and-rescue robots, according to the PR:

http://robots.net/article/908.html

Here, you can see the CentiBOTS is one of the topics at a US Navy workshop earlier this year, along with a number of other robotic topics:

http://www.pao.nrl.navy.mil/robots/schedule.html

How many search and rescue operations does the US Navy perform? That's a Coast Guard operation, isn't it? Well... Surely, the US Government would never suggest one thing while meaning another? The US Government has never done that before, has it? Naw...

=-John-=

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