Old timers might remember that le Rotour Supérieure’s first non-trivial post was about modular robots. Here’s some more crunchy self-configuring goodness. The idea is simple: make robots out of small identical parts that can attach to each other. Then everything else is just software.

First, the folks at Cornell have this cool self-assembling bot:
(Here’s the Cornell site with more info).

As usual, the Japanese have some world-class contributions too. Check out the amazing work at AIST, where they have modular bots that work as walkers, crawlers, and (almost!) rollers. Wow.
The videos are especially worth watching. This is the real thing, folks!

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