Modular Robotics

Scientists are building a new kind of robots capable of self-assembly and doing tasks too difficult or too dangerous for human beings. These modular robots are also able to deliberately change their shape by rearranging the connectivity of their parts, in order to adapt to new circumstances, perform new tasks, or recover from damage.

clipped from www2.parc.com Modular Reconfigurable Robotics is an approach to building robots for various complex tasks. Instead of designing a new and different mechanical robot for each task, you just build many copies of one simple module. The module can't do much by itself, but when you connect many of them together you get a system that can do complicated things. In fact, a modular robot can even reconfigure itself -- change its shape by moving its modules around -- to meet the demands of different tasks or different working environments. clipped from youtube.com Robots with a mind of their own clipped from www.youtube.com SuperBot clipped from www.liveleak.com clipped from groups.csail.mit.edu Distributed Robotics Lab Adaptive Architectures for Modular Robots AMOUR (Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot) Modular Self-Disassembly The Self-Reconfiguring Molecule Robot The Self-Reconfiguring Crystal Robot Generic Distributed Self-Reconfiguration Algorithms with Cellular Automata EFRI Programmable Matter

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