These amazing self-folding robots are the closest thing to Transformers we’ve ever se

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tKxygAT50bI_JXOQN5M9tQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/foldable-robots.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/amazing-self-folding-robots-closest-thing-transformers-ve-183514500.html)Who says Transformers will never be real? Researchers from Harvard and MIT have developed some incredible-robots that are capable of folding themselves up until they’re nearly flat and then unfolding themselves into their full three-dimensional forms. FROM EARLIER: You need to check out the 5 craziest robots in Google’s growing android army. Harvard informs us that these incredible robots were designed-using “little more than paper and Shrinky dinks — the classic children’s toy that shrinks when heated” to be ultra flexible and mobile. The researchers’ designs were inspired and influenced by biological processes such as the way-amino acids work to mold-proteins from-flat structures into three-dimensional coils. “Getting a robot to assemble itself autonomously and actually perform a function has been



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