<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7edeee55-50f1-45ca-b1ca-5b2f04be49c6/4D270ACF-9C9C-49B1-A0ED-ED03DEE596C6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/" href="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.walyou.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.walyou.com/img/1AEF1192-5AF6-4AC4-BD59-B2D84073C517" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><P>So are we going to Mars? Not likely, but Robot swarms, ant size Robots, perhaps will be sent to build Ant Farms on Mars.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><P>The amazing video below presents the i-swram, more like miniature robots which are smaller than a thumbnail. These Robotic ants will work together to build and assemble, like we previously heard about in the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/04/30/robots-which-shape-shift-and-reassemble-alone/" title="Shapeshifting Robots" linkindex="11" set="yes">Shapeshifting Robots</A> and the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/02/14/would-the-real-transformer-please-stand-up/" title="Real Transformers" linkindex="12">Real Transformers</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><P>By being able to assemble into a larger sized Robots and break down into micro-bots, a greater possibility of exploration is apparent. If needed, they will come together as one larger robot, if obstacles appear, they can break down to pass and continue on their search for food, water, etc.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><P>Working by a special algorithm and communicating by Infra-red, these miniature robots do not need much programming or storage. With that, manufacturing is cheaper than before and mass production is easier.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><P>It seems like great progress towards the exploration of Mars.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/10/22/robot-ant-farms-on-mars/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U4aU9j5tMMY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4D270ACF-9C9C-49B1-A0ED-ED03DEE596C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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