The New Scientist is reporting on a new modular robot developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania that can automatically recognize and reassemble itself after it breaks apart.
Does this not remind you of the robot in The Iron Giant?
The modular robot works very much in the same way that the Iron Giant does in fact. It sends out a blinking signal that the other pieces respond to. And [very] slowly the robot comes together all by itself.
Man, in a couple of years, robots will probably just build themselves. Kinda like how it all goes down in I, Robot.
The Iron Giant trailer (just because I wanted to post it).
The T-1000 in Terminator 2 “reassembling” itself after being blasted apart.
