Self Reconfiguring Modular Robotics Essentials

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This post defines three fundamental properties of Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics, SRCMR and then summarizes and elaborates on some consequences of them.

Fundamental properties

It is fundamental to SRCMR solutions to:

Divide a task among many units that handle the task jointly

This may seem simple and not that revolutionary, [...]

Lessons from the mother of all demos

December 9, 1968 Douglas Engelbart presented a demo of  NLS (which stood for oNLine System), which can be summarised as a word processing system and a web system all in one.

After a few introductory statements, his opening remarks were (starting at 2:16 in the video below):

“If you in your office, you as a [...]