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British military scientists are developing robot flies that can be sent in swarms to spy out enemy positions.
The idea sounds like nightmarish science fiction, but project leader Dr Rafal Zbikowski believes the first machine insects could be buzzing around his lab within seven to 10 years.
5 comments:
Every paranoid's nightmare...no discussion in the article on what will keep the little mechanocritters airborne...The novel counting heads has mechanical wasps and beetles, no flies though...
Ron
It said somewhere about the prototype beating its wings like a fly...
Well then that technology should work for personal human mechanowings too. Ah the army will have its 'Killer Angels' for real, soon.
Ron
I would think that the Preditor ranks right up there with "killer Angel" right now don't ya think?
yeah, the Pred is such a creepy machine; they probably let Dubya
steer it and shoot rockets at people just for jollies.
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