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Friday August 29, 2008
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 Robots have long been able to follow objects, people and commands, but now researchers at University of California, Davis, have figured out how to make robots follow one another based on behavioral cues. According to a report on The Engineers these robots use a combination of targeting and behavioral recognition to accurately follow another robot.
In a test, researchers sent the speed and position of the lead robot to the follower, which used its new programming to follow the leader without being given specific instructions about where to go.
Robots that can follow other robots better could ultimately follow people better too, in hospitals, on the battlefield and, in, I'm thinking, in presidential elections. I envision a day where robots pick up on cues to follow people into the Democrat or Republican Parties. Automatons asking for the right to vote is probably right around the corner.
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August 30, 2008 4:56 AM
This is sure the beginning of iRobot.
Cool.
August 30, 2008 5:07 AM
Robots will be driven by someone.. more mechanical politics is a strange idea though but still these will be driven by the same PEOPLE