Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are building swarms of tiny robots that have a built-in intelligence, allowing them to build structures, vehicles, or even larger versions of…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are building swarms of tiny robots that have built-in intelligence, allowing them to build structures, vehicles, or even larger versions of themselves.
The subunit of the robot, which is being developed at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, is called a voxel and is capable of carrying power and data. “When we’re building these structures, you have to build in intelligence,” MIT Professor and CBA Director Neil Gershenfeld said in a statement. “What emerged was the idea of structural electronics — of making voxels that transmit power and data as well as force.”
The voxels makeup both the robot itself as well as the components of the thing being built, allowing them to work together on larger structures.,” CBA doctoral student Amira Abdel-Rahman said in a statement.self-replicating robot swarmsThe researchers, who published a paper laying out their findings in Nature, are working with the aviation industry, car companies, and NASA on the new technology.
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