Scientists Unleash Robot Horde On Humanity

Husband and wife scientists at the University of Wyoming receive a grant to develop their swarm of robots. In the wake of Cornell University's demonstration of self-replicating robots, scientists at the University of Wyoming have developed robots that can detect the sources of chemical or biological contamination. The robots could demonstrate their usefulness in the event of a feared terrorist attack with a biological weapon, or a chemical spill within a storage facility. A group of robots, communicating with each other and with human minders, would converge on the source of the contamination. This advance would be useful today at a place like the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, where the Army has had difficulty locating a sarin nerve gas leak within a sealed storage igloo. The building contains 2,500 rockets loaded with the toxin. But for now, the robots exist mostly on paper, and in computer simulations.