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Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:

SuperBot Modular Robot Connects With NASA
   SuperBot is a modular robot prototype that will choose its own way to explore and perform tasks in space.

Self-Reconfigurable Robots Get It Together
   This robot comes apart into clusters that can call to each other and reconnect; watch the video and imagine what will be possible in another five years.

Cheap Microrobot Swarms
   This amazing little bot is all on one circuit bard. Why not make a whole black cloud of them?

MIT's Smart Pebbles Duplicate 3D Shapes
   'It is made up of tiny metal particles. A remote-controlled emulsion, as it were, with uniform center.'

M-Block Modular Robots Assemble Themselves
   '... as though a child should build from nursery blocks a fantastic shape which abruptly is filled with throbbing life.'- Abraham Merritt, 1920.

BitDrones Flying Microbots Model Programmable Matter
   '... as though a child should build from nursery blocks a fantastic shape which abruptly is filled with throbbing life.'- Abraham Merritt, 1920.

ChainFORM Robot For Your Wrist
   '...a vaguely terrifying foot-high shape, squared and angled and pointed and ANIMATE.' - Abraham Merritt, 1920.

M-Blocks 2.0 Self-Assembling Robots
   'Faster the cubes moved...' - Abraham Merritt, 1920.

ElectroVoxel Reconfigurable Robots
   '...a vaguely terrifying foot-high shape, squared and angled and pointed and ANIMATE.' - Abraham Merritt, 1920.

MIT Self-Assembling Reprogrammable Materials
   'Faster the cubes moved; faster the circle revolved; the pyramids raised themselves, stood bolt upright on their square bases...' - Abraham Merritt, 1920.

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