Is an army of Terminator II style “liquid” androids -- ones that can self-assemble, self-repair and transform -- finally possible? An American team took to Tokyo last week and proved that they have ...

Almost exactly six years ago, we reported on the first iteration of the self-assembling cube robots called M-Blocks. Since then, they've become exponentially more radical. Here in October of 2019, the ...

The M-Blocks, created by John Romanishin at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, are self-assembling robots that move themselves around like magnetic Mexican jumping beans.

Picture this: self-assembling blocks that, when given a task, have the ability to reorganize themselves into new geometries. Till now, robots have depended on arms or attachments to move themselves.

Is an army of Terminator II style "liquid" androids -- ones that can self-assemble, self-repair and transform -- finally possible? An American team took to Tokyo last week and proved that they have ...