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-"The MIT researchers are currently building an army of 100 cubes" Hardly "unleashes hundreds of swarmbots", more like unleashes eight of them, and plans to re
by timje1 13y ago
-"The MIT researchers are currently building an army of 100 cubes"
Hardly "unleashes hundreds of swarmbots", more like unleashes eight of them, and plans to release more .. Quite a misleading article title.
edit: I'm not complaining about the HN title, which is just taken from the article. I'm pointing out that the actual article title, which states that hundreds of these bots have been unleashed (lie, it's about eight) and that they self assemble (lie, they require direct instruction) is misleading...
- th0br0 13y agoIf you follow the official mit.edu link, you can find that statement in the last paragrah. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-assembling-robots-1004.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-as...
- Toenex 13y agoAgreed. Terms like army and unleashed as well as the Terminator 2 reference in the article attempt to jazz up a piece of work which is interesting enough in it's own right.
- webjprgm 13y agoIt encourages you to imagine what these things can be good for, therefore get excited about even just this small progress.
- jlgreco 13y agoIt encourages me to be disappointed when I actually read the article, which is not exactly the best state to put me in if you want me to appreciate your article.