Soon, autonomous eye-bots,
hand-bots, and foot-bots will join together, forming the
Swarmanoid. According to a recent Wired
article, researchers at the Free University of Brussels will be
building and experimenting with 60 autonomous bots that form the Swarmanoid. The indivudal swarm-bots
are about 116 mm in diameter. Unlike other robot swarms, the robots are
not all identical. Some of them have been optimized for certain types of
tasks. Other researchers hope to someday produce nanoscopic sized
swarmbots that can assemble themselves inside a human body, perform
medical procedures, and then disassemble.