My latest article at TheFeature.com is about a new breed of robots–biomimetic blimps, tiny helicopters, and swarmbots–that use Bluetooth for wireless communications.
Bluetooth is finally taking off. Literally. A small robotic blimp floats gently through the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, wirelessly interacting with a desktop computer to literally evolve its own navigation software without human intervention. What the blimp sees via its onboard sensors is Bluetoothed to the PC for processing. The artificially evolved “brains” are then transmitted back to the mylar blimp so it can intelligently fly through its environment, improving with each run….
