Modular Robot Reintegrates Itself After Destructive Kick In The Nuts
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 2 of May , 2008 at 12:01 am
Here at BotJunkie, we love modular (and swarm) robotics. One of the big advantages that keeps getting talked about when it comes to modular robots is their resiliency; i.e. their ability to survive (and recover from) damage. This video shows ckBot, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Modular Robotics Lab, demonstrating the principle… Make sure to watch all the way to the end, it’s pretty funny:
This is what the researchers call “the rapid, randomized disassembly of a system from a high-energy event.” All I can say is, if this were my research project, the event that caused the randomized disassembly of a system that I’d put a lot of work into probably would not have been quite so high-energy. Sure, ckBot survived and managed to put itself back together, but it was clearly not quite the same afterwards. A little woozy, perhaps, but how would YOU feel if that had happened to you, hmm?
[ ModLab ] VIA [ Smart-Machines ]
Category: Transforming, Research
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