I'll never be able to hug them," The top U.S.military officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, says intelligence officers are studying the video, but he declined to share their conclusions during a news conference.

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They created a video of the Swarmanoid in action, which won the 2011 AAAI ( Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) best video award.

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With advances in feature and pattern recognition and other forms of machine intelligence, these video streams will throw off a tremendous amount of structured data, the use of which we will have no knowledge of or control over.

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