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Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Aug 14"CAMBRIDGE -- When Harvard scientist Michael Rubenstein walks into the laboratory in the morning, he is greeted with a scene somewhere between a disco and the opening of a science fiction movie about a robot apocalypse. A constellation of LED lights blinks in the darkness -- the electronic heartbeat of his 1,024-robot horde. They are ready to do his bidding."