There are some cool robotics projects underway that are opening portals for the cyber world to step out into our world. Links to a few videos of these:
snake robot 3
Titanoboa meets the Mondo Spider
Amphibious snake robot - ACM-R5 : DigInfo
Swarm Robots Cooperate with AR Drone
Leaping H-Rex
modular robot
MTRAN3 Modular Robot
If you are impressed by the imaginations behind the robot projects, check out the imaginations of the conspiracy theorists (and the audience-seeking mass media): Military Mosquito Robots Collecting DNA & Blood!
For a sf-horror movie that speaks to the idea of electronic intelligence moving into the physical world, check out Virus (1999). I think the movie would have been better with less gore and more sf, but as-is it's not half bad.
For some reading on the subject of self configuring modular robots, here's a good place to start: Wikipedia article on it. Two earlier posts of mine on related topics: cool-autonomous-robots-sailing-oceans, and big-data.
(I did something different in this post - all of the links are set to "open in a new window". Is this a better way for me to set these? If you would, leave feedback on this in the comments box below.)
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