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minus-squareAvicenna@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days ago“Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine…” Probably won’t be the first use case: “When Miskin and Blaauw first met at a presentation hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) five years ago…” I don’t have much hope that it will be used for the benefit of the average human but pretty cool tech otherwise.
“Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine…”
Probably won’t be the first use case:
“When Miskin and Blaauw first met at a presentation hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) five years ago…”
I don’t have much hope that it will be used for the benefit of the average human but pretty cool tech otherwise.