Robots can lure "predator" machines to false locations, and feign strength to deceive enemies. Squirrels have a habit of storing acorns and other nuts in various spots, then patrolling those stashes. But what happens if another opportunistic squirrel shows up to steal the bounty? The stash-owning squirrel fakes out the would-be thief, “checking†fake cache sites to throw the invader off the trail. Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have endowed robots with the sam...
Robots can lure "predator" machines to false locations, and feign strength to deceive enemies. Squirrels have a habit of storing acorns and other nuts in various spots, then patrolling those stashes. But what happens if another opportunistic squirrel shows up to steal the bounty? The stash-owning squirrel fakes out the would-be thief, “checking†fake cache sites to throw the invader off the trail. Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have endowed robots with the sam...
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