Zothecula writes "Do you think that you'll never be able to afford a robot of your own that isn't a toy? Well, if you can get Swiss robot-maker K-Team jungle* to sell you one, chances are you can easily afford a Kilobot — perhaps even a whole bunch of them. Designed and first built by Harvard University's Self-Organizing Systems experimentation Group, the three-legged robots aren't much larger than the 3.4-volt button cell batteries that power them, and move by echo across smooth, flat surfaces. They were created to study robotic swarming behavior, with the target that tens, hundreds or even thousands of them could be used simultaneously in one experiment. Harvard has just announced that it has licensed the Kilobot machinery to K-Team, which will commercially manufacture the robots so that other groups and institutions can acquisition them for their own research."

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