Robots to get their own internet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12400647

"Called RoboEarth it will be a place that robots can upload data to when they master a task, and ask for help in carrying out new ones."

Robotic Ghost Knifefish

The Incredible Robot Fish from Northwestern News on Vimeo.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-robotic-ghost-knifefish-born-video.html 

"The team then created a computer simulation that showed that when these “inward counterpropagating waves” are generated by the fin, horizontal thrust is canceled and the fluid motion generated by the two waves is funneled into a downward jet from the center of the fin, pushing the body up. The flow structure looks like a mushroom cloud with an inverted jet."

Air Force Is Through With Predator Drones

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/air-force-is-through-with-predator-drones/

"Unlike the Predator, the Reaper is no accidental warrior. Also built by General Atomics, it flies twice as fast (150-170 knots cruising, 260 max), at higher altitudes (around 50,000 feet), and carries ten times the payload (over 2 tons) as the Predator. That allows it to strap on the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, as well as GBU-12 and GBU-38 precision bombs. And as a surveillance aircraft, it’s got more electrical power than the Predator, which means “we can integrate new or improved sensors on the aircraft,” Johnson says."