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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 16th, 2026
Vol VI Issue 40 Who Said this? A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. Today, 371 links Cu
Self-Assembling Wires
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"Self-folded Soft Robotic Structures With Controllable Joints," by Cynthia Sung, Rhea Lin, Shuhei Miyashita, Sehyuk Yim, Sangbae Kim, and Daniela Rus from MI...
This looked and sounded like sorcery until I actually watched the video. It’s still impressive, though. Elegant. I’d like to see where this technology goes in the fut ure. But on the other hand, perhaps self-building tiny robots aren’t the best idea in the world ...
MIT Self-Assembly Lab ACTIVE SHOES UPPER
Roombots: Self-organizing Robotic Furniture
Roombots: Self-organizing Robotic Furniture
It is still in the early stages but smart, ‘roomboots’ the self-assembling robotic furniture, with adaptive functionally adjusting to your specific needs.
How amazing it will be if you can just snap your fingers or issue a verbal command for a table, a chair or any other furniture to assemble right in front of you. Can you imagine? That the chair you’re sitting on became a sofa on demand as the…
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Well, this is not a good sign. They may not be able to replicate, but they can self-assemble. Which in my book is next to replicating.
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Bake Your Own Robot
"At this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong Kong this weekend, Daniela Rus, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, is set to introduce a new idea of 3D printable robots called Bakeable Robots.
The team has built printable robotic components that, when heated, automatically fold into 3D configurations. The researchers will explain how to build electrical components from self-folding laser-cut materials and present designs for resistors, inductors, and capacitors, as well as sensors and actuators - the electromechanical "muscles" that enable robots' movements."
"We have this big dream of the hardware compiler, where you can specify, 'I want a robot that will play with my cat,' or 'I want a robot that will clean the floor,' and from this high-level specification, you actually generate a working device," Rus said in a statement.
"So far, we have tackled some subproblems in the space, and one... is this end-to-end system where you have a picture, and at the other end, you have an object that realizes that picture."
~ 3ders.org