[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbJS6LZbs&w=640&h=480] Looking at these reconfiguring robo-cubes, created by research scientists at MIT in the face of ...

A robot to explore the unknown and automate tomorrow’s tasks and the ones after them needs to be extremely versatile. Ideally, it was capable of being any size, any shape, and any functionality, ...

Arduino enthusiasts and makers with access to a 3D printer might be interested in a new open-source self-reconfigurable modular robot that has been created and powered by an Arduino Nano development ...

Many robots are controlled by robotic nervous systems in which sensors and actuators are connected to a central processing unit. However, in most cases the robotic nervous systems are mapped strictly ...

The path toward humanoid robots capable of transforming themselves into trucks, dinosaurs, and airplanes is now a bit shorter, thanks to the invention of a modular robot that can alter its physical ...

While robots have been making our lives easier and our assembly lines more efficient for over half a century now, we haven’t quite cracked a Jetsons-like general purpose robot yet. Sure, Boston ...

Modular self-reconfigurable robotics encompasses systems in which individual robotic units can autonomously adjust their configuration to adapt to varying tasks and environmental conditions. These ...

Robots are going to have to work together if they want to destroy us, their soft, fallible masters. But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set of ...

Our favorite robots are the kind that can help themselves. Just so, the M-Tran modular transformer robots developed in (where else) Japan can actually self-assemble and reconfigure themselves into ...

Figure 1: Self-reproduction of a four-module robot. Self-reproduction of a physical machine has previously been achieved in two dimensions using tumbling wooden tiles 11 and a machine comprising four ...