(Reuters) Sept. 4 –   This robot is bringing a new sense to the term Mother Nature. Built by the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, this robot ‘mother’ was given a simple command to build ‘children’ capable of locomotion. Assembled from up to five plastic cubes with small internal motors, each robotic offspring is then placed on a surface where its performance is tested. By analyzing the data it collects, the mother robot ensures preferential traits […]