The China Space Administration ripped off Star Trek designs for its logo, and now researchers are building nascent Borg-like devices that can assemble themselves into a greater whole, and even reassemble themselves when they're broken apart:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/robot-rebuilds.html
It's actually very cool tech and another example of how the far-off fiction of one day becomes the down-to-earth reality of another.
very very cool!
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