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  "url": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/tiny-robot-boats-build-floating-structures-0709",
  "title": "Tiny robot boats build floating structures",
  "summary": "MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.",
  "authors": "Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
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  "published_at": "2026-07-09T15:50:00.000Z",
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  "source_name": "MIT News",
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  "original_url": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/tiny-robot-boats-build-floating-structures-0709",
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