Some of the students interning on the Micro-autonomous Systems Technology (MAST) project at the Army Research Lab in Maryland spend their summer trying to equip soldiers with dozens or even hundreds of "insect" robots that can swarm into a bunker or cave to provide a remote look inside. "Working in silicon at the fruit-fly scale, they'll cost almost nothing," says Chris Kroninger, an aeronautics researcher specializing in MAST's wings, "and they can be equipped with limited sensor capability that can be a first warning for a soldier."
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