Cisco has developed a set of small smart robots, which can act as wireless communications relays, that sense when a mobile user is moving out of service range, and can follow the user to maintain connectivity.
Cisco talked about the prototype box-shaped robots at this week’s Military Technologies Conference in Boston. According to Dave Buster, product marketing manager for the Cisco Global Government Solutions Group, the robots can follow a user almost anywhere to maintain connectivity. Published reports said the robots were part of Cisco’s “Information on the move” initiative - a wide ranging plan to secure all things wireless. “Cisco will probably never market that software, but we might make it available to partners who might want to put it on a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle],” Buster told the conference.
Source: NetworkWorld