Aug 9, 2014
Your future furniture might self-assemble, like this rad little robot. Read more.
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Your future furniture might self-assemble, like this rad little robot. Read more.
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