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Harvard & MIT create first self-assembling robots the first real Transformers
2014-08-08 17:00:40| Extremetech
Harvard and MIT engineers, showing reckless disregard for the robocalypse, have created origami robots that can self-assemble themselves -- from a flat piece of paper and polystyrene -- and walk away in just four minutes. "Getting a robot to assemble itself autonomously and actually perform a function has been a milestone weve been chasing for many years," says Harvard's Robert Wood, barely stifling a maniacal cackle.
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