As the theory goes it takes humans, the kind of ones, to create and power up robots. But in a major breakthrough in robotics, the Ro's have finally managed to replicate themselves, by their own, of course with the a little help called the initial touch by the ambitious.

Hod Lipson along with his Corny team developed a group of robots that can complete the self-cloning process at a simplistic level without human assistance. This is the beginning of a larger scale development that could provide Ro's with the ability to build others robots, even more complex ones, to repair themselves or others, to run rescue and human inaccessible missions and basically maintain the chain of processes without any breakouts.

Interestingly, the outcome of this project has a major significance given that at this very moment NASA is having quite a lot of trouble getting the Mars Rover out of a sand dune in the Red Planet. It's apparently the biggest challenge they have faced since the robot's landing last year. So in a case where the robot fails to find a way out, with all the human instructions and programs fed into it, it would most likely be a reason for the failure of the entire mission.

However, not if the kind of projected modular robots are available which can probably run a rescue operation or assist another in completing a taks and prevent aborting missions. Just like a human helping another to get out of a trap. Skills like that needs intelligence, and injecting them into machines could also mean sampling a substitutional working group. A group that would need no guidance after being created.

So as Ro's develop their line of intelligence, or to say, as we feed them with our intelligence, their abilities continue to grow each day just like a typical human. But they too would always have to depend on a source of energy just like we do and thereby give us control over them. But at a time when they make uninterrupted decisions, have the ability to reproduce with no time restriction like those that apply to humans, and are capable of maintaining their chain of processes, imagine when and where the progression would come to a stop. No I didn't take I Robot seriously, but It's quite clear what we are looking at next: A brotherhood of Robots!