Brachiating gridcrawlers
From apm
Systems that feature …
- cellular component structures
- very simple robots brachiating this structure capable of
– motion to any point on the structure and
– recomposition of the structure
Related
- Up: Cellular shape shifting tangible systems
- Microcomponent maintenance microbots could maybe work in a similar way
- Center for Bits and Atoms
External links
- 2022-11-22 MIT news: Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures
- Paper 2022 (direct link): Self-replicating hierarchical modular robotic swarms
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-022-00034-3
Terminology
Alternate names:
- brachiating framecrawlers (spaceframecrawlers) - in case of microcomponent blocks the name would not fit
- Single rotation joint reconfigurable shape robots
