The team at MIT does it again with advancements in robotics.  In this video they demonstrate modular robots that change their geometry according to the task.  Its awesome because most robots are designed for a specific task and they have a fixed architecture.  They will perform that single task well but not be able to perform well in a different environment.  With modular robots that can attain whatever shape is needed for the particular new environment and adapt as such.  Basically the bad terminator in T2 was modular.  Jonh Romanishin from MIT explains more in the video.

Watch these cool cube sin action on the video on page 2

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