ROBOTICS: EXOTIC ROBOTS: MODULAR AND FRACTAL ROBOTS

A robot is generally designed for one particular activity, or at best a few closely related activities. This of course isn’t the ideal situation as many jobs require a large number of very different activities. For example, building the walls of a house and installing plumbing and electricity require very different tools and techniques. In practice this means you’ll end up designing either several different robots or a very complicated one…

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</div>At the Creative Machines Lab we build robots that do what you’d least expect robots to do: Self replicate, self-reflect, ask questions, and even be creative. We develop machines that can design and make other machines – automatically. Our work is inspired from biology, as we seek new biological concepts for engineering and new engineering insights into biology…

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