Harvard “Kilobots” throw down some shapes

Posted on 18 Aug 2014 by Victoria Fitzgerald

Engineers in the US have created the biggest mass of tiny robots ever manufactured and studied.

Based on biological examples, like cells forming organs, the 1,024 identical robots can move into specific formations based on the programmes they are supplied with. Nicknamed “Kilobots” because there are 1,024 bytes in a kilobyte, the cylindrical miniature machines are 3cm across and can take up to 12 hours to move into a programmed shape…

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