[HN Gopher] Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, progra...
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Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable
microrobot assemblies
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 85 points
Date : 2024-12-26 21:43 UTC (1 days ago)
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| biomcgary wrote:
| Evidently someone is a fan of Big Hero 6.
| move-on-by wrote:
| Reminds me of the Seveneves book
| ASlave2Gravity wrote:
| I couldn't put that book down!
| devmor wrote:
| Very interesting and cool experiments, but I feel like this is
| stretching the limits of the term "robot" beyond its useful
| definition, as does the usage of the word "intelligence" for what
| are assuredly complex little machines, but are ultimately useless
| without being directly manipulated by a magnet.
| dsjoerg wrote:
| A more accurate (but less flashy) title might be: "Magnetically
| actuated swarm assemblies of mass-produced microrobots for task
| execution" This strips away the unnecessary anthropomorphism and
| focuses on what the system actually does.
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| https://chatgpt.com/share/676e293f-f51c-8007-b07a-2cb9d89e9a...
| ecosystem wrote:
| "Swarm intelligence" doesn't seem a very
| anthrocentric/anthromorphic concept and the swarm coordination
| across tasks is the interesting aspect of this paper. Do you
| think this claim is unfounded? (Edited: typo)
| TJSomething wrote:
| I'm not sure they're really "actuated". They're definitely
| programmed by a smart magnet, and then powered by a dumb
| magnet.
| erulabs wrote:
| Extremely cool, but also terrifying. Anyone else read all the
| lore in the Horizon games? It was AI and nano-bot swarms that
| ended the world there, escaping from a research lab and consuming
| all organic matter on the surface of the earth. Once the nano bot
| swarm can build more nano bots...
|
| Still, think of the cool robots we'll get just before the end!
| zakki wrote:
| I just watched a Stargate Episode when Asgard can't beat the
| Replicator.
| moffkalast wrote:
| Look there's nothing cruvus with me!
| thebruce87m wrote:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
| caycep wrote:
| also an episode of black mirror w/ the flies and stuff
| shiroiushi wrote:
| This sounds much like the "Replicators" from Stargate: SG1.
| reynaldi wrote:
| If you can think it, the Microbots can do it. The only limit is
| your imagination. Microbots!
| FrustratedMonky wrote:
| "Release The Hypno Drones"
|
| https://universalpaperclips.fandom.com/wiki/HypnoDrones
| dschuetz wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible
| sebmellen wrote:
| Has anyone here read Micro or Prey by Michael Crichton?
|
| > _In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A
| cloud of nanoparticles--micro-robots--has escaped from the
| laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing.
| It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical
| purposes, it is alive._
| portaouflop wrote:
| Prey was so good, really entertaining read.
|
| I think that we are a long way from this level of nanobots - we
| don't even have a regular robot that is somewhat self
| sustaining (e.g. charges itself with solar power) - so we
| probably won't need to lose hair over this anytime soon...
| Jerrrry wrote:
| I'm convinced Michael Crichton was the greatest sci-fi writer
| after Isaac Asimov.
| virtualritz wrote:
| Read "The Invincible"[1] from Stanislaw Lem.
|
| Particularly the chapter called "Lauda's hypothesis" about the
| evolution of the planet's 'necrosphere' of self-organizing
| insect-like machines.
|
| Curiously magnetism also plays a role in the book.
|
| It's from 1963.
|
| Lem was always eerily accurate with many of his futurist ideas.
| Even though he didn't want to be seen as a futurist but just as a
| sci-fi author.
|
| "Weapon systems of the 21st century"[2] is another one of those
| of his works. Written in 1986 it predicts satellite-mounted use
| of lasers and 'synsects' (synthetic insects) with swarm
| intelligence. It also predicts that powerful AI is not needed but
| (superior) swarm intelligence is enough for battlefield
| superiority.
|
| I dunno if the latter is even available in English but I guess
| nowadays you can just ask an LLM to translate the Polish original
| or the very good German translation to English, if you want to
| read it. :)
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible
|
| [2]
| https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffensysteme_des_21._Jahrhu...
| dmje wrote:
| I can't see "bot" and "swarm" in the same sentence without
| thinking of Black Mirror and wondering how we went so obviously,
| terribly wrong
| jnichols35 wrote:
| If this technology keeps evolving, football[0] could get real
| interesting.
|
| [0] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/
| notjoemama wrote:
| When exactly will world leaders realize that this new wave of
| military research is risky enough to destroy them in their
| wealthy gated communities? Do they actually have to die and take
| a percentage of life on this planet with them before they can
| agree to some form of of altruistic peace agreement? Even if they
| have escape islands, I think too many people have seen Mad Max
| and that never ends well for the leaders.
| istorical wrote:
| Current economic and political systems reward baseless
| confidence, believing you are better than others (and speaking
| and acting that way), and hubris.
|
| So maybe it makes sense that our political and economic leaders
| have false confidence that "everything will be fine, it always
| has been for me".
| bilbo0s wrote:
| I think they are more confident that most of the people in
| society believe in the same hubris. They can all point to
| some class of people that are lower than them. Don't
| underestimate the power of that kind of motivation on the
| masses.
|
| The classes of people on the bottom are usually not numerous
| nor educated enough to cause a real issue. And if you get
| _really_ lucky, the hierarchy is somewhat based in ethnicity.
| People will fight vehemently to support such structures.
|
| Taking advantage of these sorts of motivations has worked to
| organize and control human societies for millennia. There is
| absolutely no reason for elites to think it will fail now.
| 383toast wrote:
| Seems like this would be a first step towards grey goo...
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