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Published online 11 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050509-6
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Robots master reproduction
Modular machine assembles copies of itself in minutes.
Humans do it, bacteria do it, even viruses do it: they make copies of themselves. Now US researchers have built a flexible robot that can perform the same trick.
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