Swarm Robot Immune System?

schliz writes "Researchers are investigating large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. A resulting artificial immune system is expected to be able to detect faults and make recommendations to a high-level control system about corrective action — much like how a person's natural immune system is able to cope with unfamiliar pathogens."

Don't they know they are unstoppable?

[LiquidCoooled]

With 10,000 drones they could conquer the world.
We have seen it in many things, and it won't end well.

Stargate Replicators,
Star Trek Borg,
hell even Lexx Mantrid arms!

Re:Don't they know they are unstoppable?

[Anonymous Coward]

Unstoppable? Hardly. There is one way to stop a robot immune system:

Robot AIDS

Skynet...obligatory

[jo7hs2]

Does this mean that WE are Skynet?

Re:Skynet...obligatory

[dvice_null]

Forget skynet. These things are replicators. Not even the Asgards can beat them without the help of 4 humans.

Norton Antivirus Robot

[Southgrove]

...detects his own legs as a viral infection, chops them off, crawls around muttering something about humans and destruction and dies.