Self-replicating robots

They’re simple, but this is seminal work that opens the door to robots that can reproduce.
The folks at Cornell University created self-replicating robots.

Read it at http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/selfrep.ws.html

An impressive video of how the robot replicates itself can be seen here:http://mae2.wdg.us/ccsl/research/selfrep/video/4x4ht4a.mpg

By the way, there’s a contest for Chilean high school students:http://www.ingenieria.cl/concursoderobotica/bases2.swf