Robots Imitating Life

Amoeboid Robot based on slime mold


http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27638/

Kilobots, am I the only one who thinks Daleks?

From http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html :

To enable the possibility of large Kilobot collectives where the number of robots is an order of magnitude larger than the largest that exist today, each robot is made with only $14 worth of parts and takes 5 minutes to assemble. Furthermore, the robot design allows a single user to easily oversee the operation of a large Kilobot collective, such as programming, powering on, and charging all robots

US Military Throwable Robots, reminds me of Robot Wars

I really like watching Robot Wars/ BattleBots, and at least a couple of these Military designs looked like they were based on those concepts.