Coralbots will be trained to distinguish coral fragments from
other objects, such as sponges and other sea creatures, as well
as rocks and trash. (Source: Murray Roberts/Heriot Watt
University, Edinburgh) Ann - Have you seen a formal definition
yet of "swarming"? There seems to be a number of companies
working on this, but where is the line currently being drawin
betweens "swarms" and coordinated operation? Is it the fact that
the individual members of a swarm have no independant control
and the mission is simply given to the "whole" with some type of
coordinated artificial intelligence giving commands to the
individual? Yes it is about time we help rather than just
destroy, Cadman-LT. I remember seeing the plane that was
deliberately crashed for the movie Catch 22 off the shore in
Isla Mujeres, Mexico. It wasn't intended to become a haven for
small fish, but it did. Chuck and others, the robots would piece
together/transplant damaged bits of healthy and living, not
dead, coral and re-cement them to the large