Humans not needed here
‘If the miniature blimp had been working properly, the future of robotics might have been demonstrated in action yesterday in a Boeing hangar in Everett.
Instead, two little robots armed with Dell laptop computers continuously explored a few square feet of factory floor, but were unable to complete their mission: locating and surrounding a target cube, then guiding another robot to pick it up and attach it to the blimp.
Charles Erignac, a computer engineer at Boeing’s Phantom Works, envisions groups of such robots someday interacting, like a flock of birds or a swarm of bees, to accomplish their designated task.
“They talk to each other in a peer-to-peer-type interaction,” he said.’
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