Remember my post one year ago with the link to a bunch of polybot videos including one riding a tricycle (reLink)? Well, here’s another video to add to those. This one is labeled a “self-replicating repairing robot”. From the YouTube … Continue reading
Interesting piece on Wired titled “Bye Swarmbots, Hello Swarmanoids” (Link). This seems to be an alternative approach to polybots (reLink). From the article: A team at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium is embarking on a 42-month research project … Continue reading
C|Net writer Michael Kanellos must be thinking the same thing I am while reporting on a material (of sorts) comprised of millions of tiny robots that act in unison to create 3D shapes… among other things. From the article, “Attack … Continue reading
This could only be creepier if William Shatner, who was in Kingdom of the Spiders“, did a spoken word piece for the soundtrack. The video clip does bring that old b-movie to mind, doesn’t it? It also reminds me of … Continue reading
When Jeff Goldblum starts explaining insect politics to his love interest during Cronenberg‘s remake of “The Fly“, I visualized this mass of insects swarming over something dead, but somehow communicating and politicking – a hive mind. Creepy thought. That thought … Continue reading