According to this BBC report, Remote-controlled balloons carrying armies of mini-robots could be filling Mars' skies if a project by Californian scientists takes off.  When required, the balloons would launch swarms of "baby robot" probes to carry out experiments. - goto

originally Posted to cep.weblogger.com by David Soul on 2/16/04; 11:13:43 PM in the Embedded Systems section. permalink#