Photos: Robots get smart

HOBOS, or the Highly Organized Bunch of Scavengers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, are intended for eventual use as a team for search-and-rescue operations, and for assistance to the elderly. The robots use a combination of localization, dynamic path planning, peer-to-peer communication, and object-recognition processing modeled after the visual cortex.

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