Drones and Swarm Bots Working Together Is an Adorable Preview of Mankind’s Downfall

Up until now the divide and conquer technique was human race ’s best approach to quell any robot uprisings . But now that ego - assembling drove bots — shuddery in their own right field — areteaming up with eye - in - the - sky dronesto tackle tricky obstacles , we ’re pretty much screwed .

Demonstrated by a team of researchers at the 2012 Intelligent Robots and Systems conference , this little army of cloud bots is able to communicate with an overhead drone by simply using a series of flashing , colored LED lights . This system not only lets the drone communicate with a specific robot , but also authorize along instructions . All without the penury for a wireless sign that could be easily jammed . Here the technology is used to push a jugful into the recess of a room , but how long before it ’s used to campaign a jugful onto someone ’s head ? [ Automaton ]

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