Remember those spider like small retinal scanner robots from the movie Minority report? BAE Systems is getting $38 million from the US Army Research Lab to fund the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) consortium; a team of scientists and researchers hell-bent on developing an "autonomous, multifunctional collection of miniature intelligence-gathering robots that can operate in places too inaccessible or dangerous for humans."

Well, if you do manage to fall in a narrow ditch at least you know that some crawly little robots going to keep a watch on you.

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