Sunday, October 6, 2013

Self-Assembling Robots

phys.org  via   Transterrestrial Musings

Quote:

the ultimate aim of most such research is hordes of swarming microbots that can self-assemble, like the "liquid steel" androids in the movie "Terminator II." And the simplicity of the cubes' design makes miniaturization promising.

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Comment:

If the robots were small enough, they could work like pixels on a computer screen.  Put enough of them together, you could have a solid shape.  You would have a solid shape, but then what?

But could that solid object perform as a unit?  This doesn't show that it could.


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