Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Mutating Robots May Save Lives
"Picture walking up to a bucket of stuff in your garage and asking it to change the oil in your car. Then imagine that, in response to the command, a mass of self-reconfiguring robots moving around in the bucket climbs out, reconfigures on the fly into a shape that best suits the task, and proceeds. That's the ultimate vision of Mark Yim, a researcher working on the latest generation of shape-shifting robots at the University of Pennsylvania. Instead of single-purpose robots, Yim and several research teams around the world are working on creating mutating machines made out of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms and perform a variety of tasks."
I Borg....?
Or would they be Replicants...?
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