# Thursday, May 12, 2005
No, it's not a sex toy

There's cool, and then there's geeky cool.  I think this is both.

Robots master reproduction
Andreas von Bubnoff
Modular machine assembles copies of itself in minutes.
 
Humans do it, bacteria do it, even viruses do it: they make copies of themselves. Now US researchers have built a flexible robot that can perform the same trick.

Cool, right?  What? I'm a geek?  Here, watch this video then tell me if it's cool.

For the full story, please check out the article at Nature.com.

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"Sarah Connor?"

 

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