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Robots to swarm English village in huge contest

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by kate | May 1, 2008 at 06:56 am

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I would love to see this in person. The world is saturated with robots and yet somehow they never seem to descend upon a single geographical point.

via Mez Breeze, unrivalled finder of the bizarre.

A village in England will host a robot hide-and-seek exercise next month, when 11 teams drawn from private companies and universities compete to sniff out snipers, roadside bombs, and other hidden dangers while relaying real-time images to a command post.

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