MIT Is Building Anti-Smuggling, Ship-Skimming Robots, So Watch Out Han Solo
September 26, 2014 at 11:43 AM EDT
The MIT robotics labs provide an endless source of variously amusing, terrifying, and wonderful developments, and today’s is a robot prototype that can scurry across the surface of a ship’s hull, using ultrasound tech to scan for false hulls and other secret compartments used by seafaring smugglers. In our version of the future, this means inspections for contraband on… Read More