M. C. Escher and Tech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl-up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs

MCE seems to have designed a cybernetic insect in the early 1950s. Either a future depiction of insects merged with robotics. More likely, some robotic forms that are modeled from insect designs.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/robotic-insects-make-first-controlled-flight, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_living_systems#Rolling_and_wheeled_creatures_in_fiction_and_legend

Indeed, robots don't have to just look like machines or humans, but any animal & especially insects.

Fly_on_the_wall surveillance systems:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+fly+on+the+wall,
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/139600.html

http://syncnotes.blogspot.ca/2014/01/beelzebub-and-big-data-systems.html