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Reservoir Bots

US News | Science Discoveries by U.S. News and World Report

Dec 14, 20091:30Science & Medicine

Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets underwater. Schools of swimming robots would be able to work together to do thin...

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Reservoir Bots is an episode from US News | Science Discoveries by U.S. News and World Report. Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets under...

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Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets underwater. Schools of swimming robots would be able to work together to do things that one could not do alone, such as tracking large herds of animals or mapping expanses of pollution that can grow and change shape.

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Published Dec 14, 2009 and 1:30 long