The killer 'legobots' are coming: US Military to build modular robot parts they can plug together for different missions

It sounds rather like a children's toy - modular'chiplets' that can be put together to form a robot. However, Darpa's latest project has one difference - its machine could kill. Darpa hopes to shrink traditional military machines into single'chiplets' to build a library of components to aid everything from smart drone building to instant language translation. Shown, an artist's impression of the components that could be shrunk onto a single chip. The system will create a library of custom and commercial'chiplets'--small-scale chips that individually embody a particular function, such as data storage, computation, signal processing, and managing the form and flow of data.