Say it through your vocoder twelve times fast!

Professor Mandyam Srinivasan of Austrialia National University is intrigued by bees and other insect applications to robotics:

“Anyone who has tried to swat a fly, or marvelled at a bee going home from a flower patch several kilometres away, will know that insects have a visual system that is fast, reliable and accurate,” he said. “How do they do this with such small brains? If they use short cuts, could the methods be used in the design of machines and robots?”

The bet here ’round the SB bunker is hells yeah, they could. The applications! Imagine a swarm of tiny, tiny robots bent on world domniation! Deadly!

And soooo cuuuutte! Here’s an image of what such a phalanx of doom may look like, courtesy Solarbotics:

That’s a dime, y’all. . .

[via OhMyNews]

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