MIT researchers had recently developed a robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife. These reconfigurable robots are one-dimensional robots that can be made in a continuous strip, without conventionally moving parts, and then folded into arbitrary shapes. The little device is called a milli-motein — a name melding its millimeter-sized components and a motorized design inspired by proteins, which naturally fold themselves into incredibly complex shapes. This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable like the aliens in 'Transformers' movie.
