Applications of self-assembling robots?

@thebigk • Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024

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We aren't new to self assembling robots. MIT's M-Blocks robots are cuboid robots that can attach themselves to each other and form a functional body. The robots themselves remind me of the Terminator 2 movie in which machines deforms and then reforms on its own. I was wondering if there are an interesting applications of self assembling robots? What are the most important or interesting situations in which we'd want the robots to be able to assemble themselves on the spot?

Also, what are the features you'd like self-assembling robots to have that'd make them more useful and functional?

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Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

@sarathkumar-FEGRPw • Oct 5, 2013

.It can be used in earthquake prone areas where if any destruction happens it can infiltrate through small holes and assemble themselves and give us data.Correct me if i am wrong.
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zaveri

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Oct 5, 2013

One best application would be that of a "multipurpose machine".

it is something like this : consider a car, disintegrating into cubes, and then all the cubes re-assembling to form a 600cc motorbike.

so something like an industrial robot which in one form can perform welding in one area, and inspection in another area, in a different form .
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Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

@sarathkumar-FEGRPw • Oct 5, 2013

zaveri
One best application would be that of a "multipurpose machine".

it is something like this : consider a car, disintegrating into cubes, and then all the cubes re-assembling to form a 600cc motorbike.

so something like an industrial robot which in one form can perform welding in one area, and inspection in another area, in a different form .
This makes me think about the future of nano technologies applications in various fields: Especially Nanobots
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