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“Materials and Mechanisms for Amorphous Robotic Construction,” by Nils Napp, Olive R. Rappoli, Jessica M. Wu, and Radhika Nagpal from Harvard University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was presented at the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Vilamoura, Portugal.
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Robot Builds Ramp by Randomly Flinging 3,600 Toothpicks
lol what the hell 😀
The tooth pick one was awesome I wish the caulk guns were attached to the bot though
так зубочисток не доберешся
That's some impressive problem solving.
hmmm
Hmmmmm
O robozinho é persistente, gostei.
Only if it learned to go around instead lol
lol
its so cute
Now if it was smart it would just go around the box! 🙂
The American way
Precursor to Skynet. The next thing it's going to be making ramps out of is human corpses.
So… If the obstacle were 6 inches taller, would it just run out of battery life trying to scale it?
If the robot did this on its own, then that's pretty amazing and with better tools this is useful. On the other hand if someone is controlling this, whoever built this robot should give up now and move onto something they're better at. Maybe pile building?
It's a good start, but flinging things to make a big climable pile of things to get over some stuff is not efficient. What would be good would be for the robot to recognise it needs a way up to the top of the box and use the toothpicks or foam to build predesigned, efficient structures capable of carrying the weight of the robot. You'd only need a few hundred toothpicks, however the robot would need to be an order of magnitude more advanced. So you won't see a big version of this building roads
I don't think the team that built it had efficiency in mind.
dumb robot.
3,000 splinters later…
This was different. 👍☺👍