Modular Robot - iMobot (Intelligent Modular Robot)

[electrodacus]

Nice.

[QcMonolegQc]

It awsome !

maybe a bit smaller

[vincentstockdaletv]

Don't you think circular wheels would work better

[TheKingPhisher]

It's obvious this design was inspired by the MTRAN modular robot. I do like the rotating plates for faster locomotion.

[TheDanielJF]

Fortunately Incredible. WOW.

[copperhead228]

this reminds me of the movie THE IRON GIANT where at the end the beacon in his head signals all of his body-parts to come back to his position and join back together.

[ianmtxvideo]

Thumbs up if Gizmodo sent you here!

[akelodmc]

ummm people

am i the only one that thinks a robot that can move separated from a cluster is a bad idea

i mean have you seen the movies! i know their movies but give its 20, 30 years god forbid and will smith gonna be like... i told yall so.... just saying

[whatsupbudbud]

@akelodmc, you are just paranoid. Imagine how much raw materials are on other planets, asteroids, comets, etc. If we could send out a ship that has self-replicating and material harvesting robots, then we could keep the supply of oh-so-needed materials indefinitely. For example the computer you're using now most likely uses a hard drive that has a magnet alloy of which one of the components is the rare earth material neodymium, which the Earth doesn' t have much left.

Résumé - we need this!

[lorksalordie]

This video only seems to play if you set resoluion to 480p

[exponentialvoid]

this is also not working for me 12:35 27/3/11 gmt

[WORMSStube]

Is there something wrong with this video? All other youtube videos play except this one?

[MrDangerpig]

@WORMSStube set quality to 480p to make it play

[WORMSStube]

@MrDangerpig Thank u, That solved it. hehe, does the worm :D

[xyzkid13]

This would be awesome. Smaller robots combining (I'm assuming with electro magnets) to form more complicated robots is one of those things I really want to see. Imagine the possibilities!

[SEThatered]

I already invision robotic self-assembling pavilions with craziest of the geometry!

[yamenhawit]

amazing

[MaCs1313]

you need smaller versions and a lot more to assemble a terminator

[h19v91]

They could use optical communication between the modules through that hole.

[zexpa]

its perfect and flexible i think.

[madslamaxer]

I could use one of these as a roaming camera base.