Submission + - Smart little robots to help military wireless nets (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "The military continues its drive to use wireless technology to develop bleeding edge robot systems to help it fight wars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently announced a program to build wireless, mobile bots — known as LANdroids — that soldiers can spread over a battlefield that, once deployed, would then form a wireless mesh network capable of voice/data transmissions. DARPA says the LANdroids robots will consist of a radio, robotic platform, battery, and small processor, will be expendable. Solders' must be able to drop and go — benefiting from the infrastructure while it is in place but not being required to move back into harm's way to retrieve the robots. LANdroids aren't the first news of such devices this year. Cisco in March said it has developed a set of small smart robots, which can act as wireless communications relays, that sense when a mobile user is moving out of service range, and can follow the user to maintain connectivity.
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