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For those of you, like me, borning in the Eighties, you more then likely owned, saw, heard of Transformers. It started off a toyline gathered of smaller series from japan and made into one storyline in America thanks to Hasbro. It featured robots capable of turning into vehicles, hand held objects, and animals (robotic looking of course). As we grew up with them we though how cool it would be if they were rea. Well what's to say they couldn't be made.
True robots today don't have the fluid organic movements that the Transformers have, but there are examples of vehicles and hand held devices that can change shape, a tank that can become a boat, cars that can be made into planes, even a larger cell phone that can become a mini laptop. Yeah yeah, I know you're probably saying big deal, bit lets face facts, some of those people, played with Transformers too, so how much longer before we see, manned or unmanned, military or even rescue vehicles that change into a more humanoid form so as to reduce lives lost yet provide the same functionality as a human. What are you're thoughts on the matter

I love transformers, but I'm with Lei, I can't imagine how something could work, but then I don't understand physics or mechanical engeniring.
I just know you would need alot of energy.

That is indeed a good point, the issue about the wiring. I must say that one might actually need to first understand anatomy in order to make the robot itself, then work out how you could best fold and compress the robotic parts around and into the desired alternate mode. I feel that it would be likely one would need to try the simplest method of changing from one mode to the other and avoid anything too complicated.

((Sorry for being away so long Emily, I've been hella busy in the real world lately sweatdrop ))

"there definitely will be a massive alien robot war in the future,