Machines Like Us

It sounds like something straight from a children's comic, but British scientists will today take the first steps in an astonishing project to create the first real-life Transformers -- the science fiction robots which can change shape at will.

The £4.6million experiment will attempt to build swarms of tiny robots, each the size of a sugar cube, that move around on their own and connect together to form larger, intelligent machines.

Researchers say the first swarm of autonomous, intelligent, shape-changing robots could be in use within five years.

Daily Mail