Today is a sad day, indeed.  It is the day when we can visibly see our freedom (and our limbs) being ripped apart by our future robot overlords.  Thanks to Harvard’s Self-Organizing Systems Research group, our world has come one step closer to demise with the invention of Kilobots.  Your not-able-to-quickscope snipers won’t save you now, Activision!  Serves you guys right – taking quickscoping out of Blops.

 

 

Kilobots, which are roughly the size of a quarter, are completely autonomous and can communicate with each other via bouncing IR rays.  They have already learned how to forage for food, follow the leader, and effectively destroy mankind!  (Okay, maybe not the last one, but the other ones are true.)  Though they are not capable of learning, yet, Harvard students have designed a device that can program thousands of them within 35 seconds!  If someone builds a “destruction to everyone because I’m being a jerk” program, we are all dead.

 

Kilobots – Your Local Evil Scientist Outlet

 

 

 

Kilobots travel in what the Self-Organzing Systems Research group calls “nests,” which consists of a large group of these tiny robots.  These mini robots have two vibrating motors, one on each side, that can propel them counter-clockwise, clockwise, or straight.  Also, these little buggers are only $14, so it wouldn’t be terribly difficult for an evil scientist to purchase them in bulk.  Hello!  Welcome to the store that helps you take over the world!  How may I help you today?  Laser guns?  Flesh-eating Gorillas?  How about noxious gas-filled Lizards?  Exploding sausage?

 

 

Via: Engadget