I need a word

[james_davis_nicoll]

I was watching last week's @discovery.ca shows, set in Japan. One interesting item they showed was a colonial robot, a system made up of many small robotic units that could link and swap information, then re-arrange the community shape and alter their behavior to meet the colony's needs, sort of a crude analog to chondrophorines. The units are pretty big, about the size of a match-box.

It seems to me that smaller units, much smaller (although still large enough to use mechanical links and not chemical) could be an interesting material to make clothing from. I'm not sure what to call the material. Not smart-cloth, because I'd willing bet "smart" will be as overused in the future as "new and improved" was in the past.