Technology: Bug-sized robots could be next generation spies


Technology: Bug-sized robots could be next generation spies -- Lawrence Spohn  -- Nando Times  -- February 3, 2001
Surveillance Technology

Adding a new dimension to the world of creepy-crawlies, researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories have developed mobile, electronic micro-bugs - sensor-equipped robots the size of a nickel. The lab sees the devices as potential environmental monitors or antiterrorist agents - capable of silently scampering under a door, quietly rolling into a corner and eavesdropping on whatever is going on inside.

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