Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Made up of autonomous, Lego-like modules, each component of the legged metamachines features its own circuit board, battery ...

AI-designed metamachines run in the wild, recover from damage and transform into new shapes, according to recent studies. These new modular legged robots are said possess athletic intelligence and ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility. The system could be used to assemble ...

The Interactive and Robotic Systems Lab (IRS) group at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has developed a mobile, lightweight, modular and reconfigurable manipulator robot, which includes a remote ...

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 ...

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a ...

MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various ...