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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

#ROBOTICS: "Jumping Robots Self-Assemble"

Robots with no wheels or legs nevertheless can move about by jumping in any direction to self-assemble into any shape necessary to solve a problem at hand. Eventually they will be downsized small enough to swarm over the landscape forming smooth arbitrary functions like the "liquid metal" robots in Terminator-II: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Modular robot used internal flywheel (pulled out here) to give it the ability to move without legs or wheels.
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