Tiny Robots 'Swarm' Themselves Into Shapes

Scientists have created an army of small robots capable of taking the shape of various objects.   They’re called “Kilobots.”   But before that name causes you conjure up images of a Terminator-like killer robots able to morph into nearly anything, the “flash mob” of these 1,024 tiny, minimalist robots have only so far morphed into simple shapes like a starfish, the letter K and a wrench.   The various shapes the robots take are drawn on a computer and then sent to each...

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