For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Alberto] is building such a modular, self-reconfiguring robot: Dtto. To achieve the highest possible reconfigurability, [Alberto’s] robot is designed to be the ...

Researchers have developed self-reconfiguring modular robots that can merge, split and even self-heal while retaining full sensorimotor control. The work may take us closer to producing robots that ...

M-Blocks are reconfigurable, modular robots with no external moving parts, built by research scientists at MIT. The cubes' ability to move results from harnessing the momentum of an internal ...

[2] Genetic algorithm-based optimal design of modular robot topology based on distributed parallel kinematic modeling and analysis. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2023).

But not every robot needs to be human-shaped in order to be general purpose. Some of the more interesting designs being researched are modular robots.

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 ...

Introducing MSRR, a “modular self-reconfigurable robot” designed and built by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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 ...