Yeah I know,it's not one of the pressing political issues out there:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kBdhitrlo

hmmm. I dont think thats the PC way to kill a fly. You're supposed to use a fly swatter or bug spray _{unless you're in Africa of course}

Now, one should also wonder what a fly was doing in an air conditioned room, why the news reels saw the incident as front page news, and how far along is that fly robot called Robofly.

Robofly was hatched in early 1998, when the Office of Naval Research sought ideas for tiny robots. Fearing, who has been fascinated by robots since he was a teenager, jumped at the chance.

He got together with some colleagues who let their imaginations run wild. Really wild. One idea was for a tiny, walking robot not much larger than an ant. ("Basically a silicon chip with legs," Fearing said.) Another idea was for a hopping robot modeled after an octopus. And then there was robofly.

The Navy loved robofly. It also loved robolobster, now being built at Northeastern University, and robopike, which swims in a tank at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

http://www.robotbooks.com/spy-fly-robot.htm

No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely.

The robobugs could follow suspects, guide missiles to targets or navigate the crannies of collapsed buildings to find survivors.


The technical challenges of creating robotic insects are daunting, and most experts doubt that fully working models exist yet.

"If you find something, let me know," said Gary Anderson of the Defense Department's Rapid Reaction Technology Office.

But the CIA secretly developed a simple dragonfly snooper as long ago as the 1970s. And given recent advances, even skeptics say there is always a chance that some agency has quietly managed to make something operational.

"America can be pretty sneaky," said Tom Ehrhard, a retired Air Force colonel and expert in unmanned aerial vehicles who is now at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a nonprofit Washington-based research institute.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100801434.html?hpid=topnews&hpid=artslot

To all my detractors: today is Conspiracy Day when I catch up on all the conspiracy news I've been missing.

robolobster and robopike?

pretty impressive.

But how do you prevent them being eaten by predators in the wild?

I'm surprised the Japanese didnt beat the Americans to it though. Thought they were the leaders in robotic technology.

For all those who said Obama was so innocent he couldn't hurt a fly now see for yourself, the man is a freaking KILLER.

the fly has gotten more attention than the millions of people the USA have killed.

;d ;d ;d ;d

janedoe:

Yeah I know,it's not one of the pressing political issues out there:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kBdhitrlo

A simple search. . . Goes a long way.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-285443.0.html

@ ElRazur- oopsy!!, no seriously,my bad, did not know u had the fly swat thing going on already. Will heed ur advise next time and search first.