More than meets the eye with new magnetic bots
Posted January 29 2008 11:01 pm by kobewan
Tags: hardware, innovation, research, technology, transformers
As unreal and futuristic as it sounds, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are in the early stages of being able to create a mass of microscopic, reconfigurable electromagnetic robots. If the project succeeds, the team will be able to put together hundreds or thousands of such tiny robots and program them to take any shape they want (hopefully, they won’t get out of control and try to mechanize Earth). There are many practical applications of such technology, including being able to easily update and rapidly redeploy complex machinery. The team is, as mentioned earlier, still far from their goal but they have shared an early development video (included inside). [via Engadget]