At the beginning of last year we brought you news of prototype swarming robots that cling together using electromagnetic forces to assume different shapes. Seth Goldstein, the lead researcher on the project, thinks that scaled down versions could swarm together to take on any shape - and even pass for a human.
In the meantime, the video below shows that an army of swarmbots belonging to researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland can work together to pull off quite a feat - transporting a small girl across the floor. What happens next remains a mystery. We first wrote about their ability to move heavy objects back in 2006.