phyxr.com

In the EU funded I-SWARM project, researchers have created a 100-strong swarm of centimetre-scale robots and are aiming to build swarms of ant-sized micro-bots. Some of the researchers have since created swarms of robots that are able to reconfigure themselves and assemble into larger robots that can perform different tasks.

Makes your skin crawl to think of such robo-mini-beasts out in the wild.  I’m not a nanotechnophobe, and this is far from being “grey goo”, but such technology does spawn concerns about safety and privacy.

This image show the atomic symbol for silicon written with individual silicon atoms.  This feat was managed in about an hour and a half by an Osaka University research team earlier this year.

Imagine what might be possible when you can build things from the very ground up one atom at a time.  Might take a while though.