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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:16

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:20:57 +0100
Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk> wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 
> > <https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/rolls-royce-is-developing-tiny-cockroach-robots-to-fix-airplane-engines.html>
> 
> Is that "Rolls Royce is developing" or "Rolls Royce is letting an art 
> student dream"?

	More like "Rolls Royce are supporting Harvard and Nottingham
working on small robots that they hope to be able to use one day." and art
students are creating impressions of what they might look like.

> The animations I saw a day or two ago suggested the latter
> 
> <https://vimeo.com/album/5297916>

	Both are happening, compare the photos of the prototypes with the
picture at the top of futurism's typical gushing article:

https://futurism.com/cockroach-robots-rolls-royce/

	The barely mentioned snake robot sounds like the most practical
approach but robot endoscopes aren't going to be photogenic even in a Pixar
animation.

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