Shape-shifting robots (w/ Video)
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure.By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot ? one that can turn into absolutely anything. The researchers have developed algorithms that, given a three-dimensional shape, can determine how to reproduce it by folding a sheet of semi-rigid material with a distinctive pattern of flexible creases. To test out their theories, they built a prototype that can automatically assume the shape of either an origami boat or a paper airplane when it receives different electrical signals. The researchers reported their results in the July 13 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.As director of the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Professor Daniela Rus researches systems of robots that can work together to tackle complicated t
Shape-shifting robots (w/ Video)
By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot -- one that can turn into absolutely anything. The researchers ...
Thu 5 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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MIT: Shape-Shifting Robots
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure.By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard ...
Fri 6 Aug 10 from RedOrbit
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