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Flying robots spy for government
Before the robot hordes rise up and kill us all, we best get them to do our bidding for a while longer. Instead of going gigantic, scientists have been working to bring automatons down to size, and the researchers at Harvard think they have something perfect for the military.
Professor Robert Wood has developed a life-sized robotic fly for use in military surveillance. The robot fly can beat its wings at 110 beats per minute without breaking off thanks to carbon fiber joints. With a wingspan of just over an inch, paint this thing black and you'd be hard pressed to tell this from the real thing. Well, except it doesn't have those weird eyes or legs, and it keeps wanting to look at your top secret documents instead of that candy bar on your desk.
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By KarlNemetski at 11:37 PM ON 07/30/07
We always have to remember that generally, whatever the government tells the masses it's developing, it has usually already fully developed on some level. Military intelligence services have been using this kind of technology for some time now. DARPA and other agencies developed nano-surveillance back in the 1980s.
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