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Wednesday 14 September, 2005 [22:19]
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Human: do you feel sensation? Taliesin: As a robot I lack any human emotions. Human: what turns you on . Taliesin: Electricity. Human: somehow i knew that was coming Taliesin: When was this, exactly? Human: back in the dork years Taliesin: The good old days. |
In a world where “supersize” has entered the lexicon, there are some things getting smaller, like cell phones and laptops. Dartmouth researchers have contributed to the miniaturizing trend by creating the world’s smallest untethered, controllable robot. Their extremely tiny machine is about as wide as a strand of human hair, and half the length of the period at the end of this sentence. About 200 of these could march in a line across the top of a plain M&M. Dartmouth researchers build world’s smallest mobile robot (Dartmouth Colleg press release) |