Wouldn’t it be amazing if you were to break something and that object would put itself together? This robot is a shape shifting device that can reassemble itself when separated or dissembled. Their approach is known as self-reconfigurable robotics. Last year a team of US researchers from different universities put together a blueprint for shape-shifting based on cell-like robotic “modules” that can rearrange themselves to create different shapes. They made their pitch to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA). As a result, DARPA set aside $4 million for a set of six-month studies to design modules that could be mass-produced for demonstrations.