Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away
Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.
Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure.