Cisco smart bots act like rolling routers

Has this ever happened to you? You're deep behind enemy lines, about to transmit target coordinates back to your command post for a good old fashioned carpetbombing, and just as you're about to drop the longitude in, your wireless network craps out! Actually, we really hope that you've never found yourself in this position, but for those that do, Cisco has developed a set of smart robots that tag along with their master, constantly monitoring their connectivity and attempting to bridge the connection in the event of drop outs. Part of the company's "Information on the Move" initiative, the unnamed bots were revealed at this week's Military Technologies Conference in Boston, where Cisco told attendees that this tech -- if not the the bots themselves -- could eventually be incorporated in autonomous equipment ranging from UAVs to Packbots. Naturally us geeks would also be interested in these go-anywhere communications relays, but until these bots find their way onto Newegg, we'll have to continue our search for a human WiFi detector that will agree to be our wife.

[Via Slashdot]

[RijilV @ Mar 29th 2007 11:36AM]

snicker..

I for one welcome our connectivity maintaining overloads...wait a min, I'm being serious

[akintz @ Mar 29th 2007 11:42AM]

Johnny 5 is ALIVE!

[2Perfect @ Mar 29th 2007 1:21PM]

lol sweet... that's not an actual picture though is it?

[2Perfect @ Mar 29th 2007 5:22PM]

after seeing a whole bunch of johnny 5 comments and googling it, my question has been answered :P

[Todd Allen @ Mar 29th 2007 2:39PM]

huzza! Johnny 5! now i must go watch that movie :)

[August @ Mar 29th 2007 2:55PM]

Johnny Number 5!

[Johnny 5 @ Mar 29th 2007 7:18PM]

Headline should have read "Cisco purchases Nova and updates #5". I would love a system like this. Robot or no, a system that can maintain my connectivity would be awesome in my car (and even my cellphone).

#5 IS alive!