It's a robot made of slime mold.

*Okay, come on, how could I not blog this.

http://www.physorg.com/news170865567.html

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"This new plasmodium robot, called plasmobot, (((it had to have a cute neological name))) will sense objects, span them in the shortest and best way possible, and transport tiny objects along pre-programmed directions. The robots will have parallel inputs and outputs, a network of sensors and the number crunching power of super computers. (((Sort of.))) The plasmobot will be controlled by spatial gradients of