Is the Navy trying to start the robot apocalypse?
March 10, 2011 | Source: Wired
The U.S. Navy recently issued a proposal to build “a coordinated and distributed swarm of micro-robots” capable of manufacturing “novel materials and structures,” using desktop manufacturing to “print” 3-D objects.
DARPA has also experimented with “programmable materials,” possible to “mimic the shape and appearance of a person or object being imaged in real time.”