They created a video of the Swarmanoid in action, which won the 2011 AAAI ( Association for the Advancement of ArtificialIntelligence) best video award.
If peak oil theorists believe we're rapidly running out of a major resource, the institute postulates that technology itself is advancing so rapidly that society will have an overabundance of it -- and an artificialintelligence is set to emerge that will not necessarily pursue mankind's best interests.