Shape-Shifting Robots Reassemble Themselves (Video)

April 29th, 2008 | Category: Tech Talk

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have developed modular, shape-shifting robots that can reassemble themselves after being kicked apart. Video after the break.

That’s done with the aid of a camera that seeks out the rare blinkin’ lights of another robot, which it

is able to dock with using some magnets and soon after start the search for another bot all by again, eventually forming into a slightly unstable walking robot

[via Engadget - NewScientist]

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