Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Insects for chemical and biological detection

Controlling small UAVs has turned out to be so difficult (even understanding the way insects fly was/is really hard) that DARPA is again looking to outfitting insects instead of building vehicles.

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/insect-wifi-network-tracks-down-wmds

I think it was in the movie Get Smart that Max smashed an expensive prototype something like this into pieces.

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