Floating Robotic Shipping Containers Team Up to Create Islands and Runways
By: Evan Ackerman | Posted 11 February 2013
Well, it was only a matter of time: first, there were robot swarms on the ground. Then, there were robot swarms in the air. And now, we’ve got robot swarms taking over a swimming pool. Run for the hills! Or really, you’ll probably be fine running for any sort of dry land if you want to escape this swarm of robotic boats. But why would you want to do that? It’s not like they’re part of some sort of DARPA project that will one day take over the world or something. Nope, definitely nothing like that.
I guess we can’t realistically promise that any swarm of robots doesn’t have world domination on its minds. But until it’s demonstrably too late, we’ll just keep on calling them cute. And these robotic boats from the University of Pennsylvania are totally cute.