Usually, our dystopian nightmares of robot domination involve big, substantive machines - man-sized, or better.� But many academics and military futurists believe the real power of 'bots won't be realized there swarms of tiny mechanical critters. (Think the spiders of Minority Report, instead of the Schwarzeneggers of Terminator.)
The massive defense contractor BAE Systems has announced that it will lead a team of academics and military researchers to try to create just those kind of machines. (The picture, below, is from a BAE release - not a Tom Cruise flick.)

We're building things Super villains are expected to make.