<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>DARPA launches competition to help build strong, power efficient swarm bots</title><link>/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/darpa-launches-competition-to-help-build-strong-power-efficient-swarm-bots</link><description>DARPA launches a new program called Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHIRMP) to develop swarm bots to use in disaster relief efforts. DARPA hopes to employ these tiny guys for their disaster relief programs. (Photo via DARPA) Tiny...</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: DARPA launches competition to help build strong, power efficient swarm bots</title><link>https://community.element14.com/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/darpa-launches-competition-to-help-build-strong-power-efficient-swarm-bots</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:01:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:a0f22432-9371-4bd0-a510-9dd171c9efca</guid><dc:creator>littleben1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Very interesting, just worrisome that our gov&amp;#39;t would then have a tiny robot army to deploy for whatever reason they so choose. However, still very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=5472&amp;AppID=96&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>