Self-Reconfigurable Robots for Collaborative Discrete Lattice Assembly

Miana Smith,Amira Abdel-Rahman,Neil Gershenfeld,Miana Smith,Amira Abdel-Rahman,Neil Gershenfeld

We present a robotic system for the assembly of 3D discrete lattice structures in which the robots are able to self-reproduce, such that the assembly system may scale its own parallelization. Robots and structures are made from a set of compatible building blocks, or voxels, which can be assembled and reassembled into more complex structures. Robotic modules are made by combining actuators with a ...