Foglet
A hypothetical robot that consists of a human-cell-sized device with twelve arms pointing in all directions. At the end of the arms are grippers that allow the Foglets to grasp one another to form larger structures. These theoretical nanobots are intelligent and can merge their computational capacities with one another to create a distributed intelligence. Foglets are the brainchild of J. Storrs Hall, a Rutgers University computer scientist.
Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Foglet
What I want to be when I grow up, is a cloud By J. Storrs HallUtility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of By J. Storrs Hall
The Age of Spiritual Machines: Glossary By Ray Kurzweil
Safer Molecular Manufacturing through Nanoblocks By Tom Craver
The Human Machine Merger: Why We Will Spend Most of Our Time in Virtual Reality in the Twenty-first Century By Ray Kurzweil