Self-cloning robots are a chip off the old block
May 12, 2005 | Source: NewScientist.com News
The first self-replicating, scalable robot, designed by Cornell University scientists, uses small mechanical building blocks that can attach themselves to one another using electromagnets, all equipped with an identical set of instructions.
It could herald a fundamental rethink of how robots are used in remote environments where repairing them is difficult.