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Wind-up robot toy

Posted at 4:01pm on 02 May 2008

Broken Robot

A modular robot that re-assembles itself when broken apart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn-sMq8-Ls&eurl

Not the most impressive demo I've ever seen; It seems to take a really long time, even with the speeded up video, and it's particularly amusing at the end when it stands up and then immediately falls over and breaks into bits again.

Still, it's one step closer to grey goo, and that's both scary and cool in equal measure.

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