The Science Behind Giant Robot GortS   The Science Behind Giant
Robot GortS  One of the ways that Gort fights when he goes into
offensive mode is that his entire huge body breaks down into a
swarm of self-replicating microbots that look like metal
insects. These microbots are tiny, but visible to the naked eye,
and they fly in a giant formation, breaking down all organic
substances in their path (buildings, trucks, humans). Basically
they seem like a flying gray goo, or a nanotech disaster that
eats everything. But they aren't. They are actually more like
swarming microbots, a technology that's being developed in
several labs across the world right now.  The Science Behind
Giant Robot GortS  Most microbots look something like this one,
a model used in the i-Swarm project where many tiny robots move
in tandem and communicate with each other. Bots like this are
the size of an insect, and are intended to behave like them too.
They contain a microchip and can walk or fly, communicate via
radio with each other or