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Scientists create self-regenerating robot that's obviously going to kill us all

RegeneratingRobot-Thumb.jpgSilicon Valley startup Robotex, which has won the endorsement of Pentagon mercenary suppplier Blackwater, already manufacturers robots with guns. How long until they or anybody else building an army gets their hands on the creepy robocritter featured in the clip embedded below? Watch as a modular robot made by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reassembles itself when kicked apart.

9:20 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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