Wi-Fi Robots! What next?!
‘DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), the occasionally eccentric American death-tech hothouse, has come up with a scheme to develop "LANdroids", small crawling radio-relay robots the size of a deck of cards’, reports The Register.
This time around the idea sounds a little more plausible than some of their other ideas (like, cyborg butterflies!).
Radio communications do tend to be unreliable in urban warfare – and in the future, these LANdroids might come in handy by providing an instant Wi-Fi network, say in an underground bunker!
DARPA says: "The LANdroid robots, which will consist of a radio, robotic platform, battery, and small processor, will be expendable. Dismounted warfighters must be able to drop and go – benefiting from the infrastructure while it is in place but not being required to move back into harm’s way to retrieve the robots…the target is to demonstrate a platform that would have a final production cost of $100 per LANdroid at modest volumes."
Something like this in India is definitely a dream way too distant to even dream about! But it would definitely come in handy for disaster-relief scenarios and rescue operations.
Via: SciFi
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Lol! (H)
Category: International
What it talks about: Internet related technology
Even has a mention of whether this can come to India and what it can be used for!
Thanks for reading anyways
believe me this will never come to india! Darpa experiments what indians can't even imagine.
I will prefer reading this fancy stuff on some sci-fi website than watblog. Build your niche! don't randomly cover anything or everything. Anyways thats just a suggestion.
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"Something like this in India is definitely a dream way too distant to even dream about!"
That lines up there….and the content here is not limited to just Indian Start Up news.
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