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Swarms of tiny robots that join forces to tackle the job at hand, and repair themselves when they are damaged, are being built by a team of British scientists.

The motorised, sugar cube-sized robots are designed to communicate with one other, and will be able to assemble themselves into much larger machines to carry out specific tasks when required.

Scientists at the University of the West of England in Bristol are experimenting with the swarms as part of a €10m (£7.5m) project called Symbrion, to build highly-adaptive machines that can transform themselves to suit very different tasks and environments.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics

http://swarm-robotics.org/

http://www.inl.gov/adaptiverobotics/robotswarm/

http://www.swarmrobot.org/

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