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Re: Inter-robot communcation

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
If you want to try to communicate with another robot, fine. But I don't think they'll have sensors in your sending range that will be able to detect your signal. It's just as unlikely that they have transmitters for their info that you'll be able to detect. Unless, of course, there's been a game change and we have to, but I don't think the GDC's going to hit us with that for a couple of years yet.
While I agree that I don't think the GDC will hit us with this, we already have a way to communicate between robots ... it's called WiFi (802.11N to be exact), and it comes prebuilt into the system

... now back to that protocol


Seriously though, I doubt they'd let us use WiFi
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