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Bruce Sterling
Oct 8, 2013 6:22 AM

Self-assembling robot cubes from MIT

*Hahahaha "internal flywheels." Nice jumping-bean action there, guys.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/m-blocks/

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