(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of...
**Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of tiny robots. **
“Small robots that are able to work together could explore the planet. We now know there is water and dust so all they would need is some sort of glue to start building structures, such as [homes](http://www.physorg.com/news143815934.html#) for human scientists,” says Marc Szymanski, a robotics researcher at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
This article has a cool video of the little buggers in action. The idea is: get lots of little robots to act in concert to set up bases on Mars or the Moon before we land people there. Neat!
