Today’s evidence that we are nearing the future comes from MIT and Harvard, where researchers are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot — one that can turn into absolutely anything. Studded with magnets and electronic muscles known as actuators, their prototype robot can automatically fold itself into an airplane or an origami boat.
…Today’s evidence that we are nearing the future comes from MIT and Harvard, where researchers are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot one that can turn into absolutely anything. Studded with magnets and electronic muscles known as actuators, their prototype robot can automatically fold itself into an airplane or an origami boat. From MIT: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 research was born out of work by Professor Daniela Rus, who directs the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). One of the lab’s big foci is…
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