Searching Scientific Commons is a great way to find papers, new and old, on any topic. When I searched for Self Reconfiguring Modular Robotics recently I got 323 hits! It is truly an amazing resource.
My Self Reconfiguring Modular Robots search
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The Gadget Show is a UK TV show for fun and interesting technical gadgets and in their latest episode they feature Modular Robots.
In it the reporter, Ortis Deley, travels to the US and visits both Carnegie Mellon and University of Pennsylvania.
First he visits Carnegie Mellon to see the latest progress in the research on robotic snakes, and gets closer then [...]
New Video from USD Modular Robotics Research Lab showing the Odin system. [...]
Paper, FE No;1:Reusable Electronics and Adaptable Communication
as Implemented in the Odin Modular Robot
By Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Andreas Lyder, David Johan Christensen and Kasper Stoy
This paper was an interesting read. I think it shows how far the research on SRCMR has come, that we can now start to refine the design.
I think that it is interesting [...]
Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Mirko Bordignon, Kasper Støy have made another interesting video, showing some new developments.
One is that they have made the modules more robust, communication more fault tolerant, and the gripping mechanism more reliable. This is naturally very important, reliable and fault tolerant units and systems are absolutely necessary for SRCMR.
The other thing that I [...]
New videos from Neil Desmond, From Desmond Innovation. [...]
Self-Reconfigurable Robots by Sam Slee is an incredible resource. It contains an incredible number of links to what must be every major paper, research institution and researcher in the field of SRCMR. It is simply amazing.
When reading it, I had a thrilling moment when I found my own blog listed! That was so cool since I [...]
This is a interesting video by Howie Choset that shows a number of different gaits of modular snake robots.
It really shows how incredibly capable and different SRCMR solutions are going to be.
The video beautifully illustrates that solutions developed with SRCMR will be able to do many things, that old school products would struggle to do, even [...]
I found this, in internet terms rather old video, but I think it is a really cool illustration of how things can work in the future. I especially like the part (starting at 35 seconds) where he creates a phone when he needs one just by doing the dialing motion!
It will be interesting to see, how [...]
Good one-pager overview especially the chronology is nice. I also like the grand challenges, anybody up for building a thousand units over the weekend? [...]