Something fun to fret about: the robot itself is a tiny little thing, barely larger than a US cent.
http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/05/130502142649.jpg >From the article: > the next steps will involve integrating the parallel work of many > different research teams who are working on the brain, the colony > coordination behavior, the power source, and so on, until the robotic > insects are fully autonomous and wireless. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130502142649.htm What they did not mention is that you could outfit one of these little robots with some kind of poison dart, bringing us much closer to our hunter-seeker than I had anticipated. We are basically there now, assuming these things aren't too noisy. Eric