Technology Robots These 2D machines can shapeshift into moving 3D robots Mori3's triangular, modular design allows it to fuse with its companions, and could one day make it into space. By Andrew Paul ...

Modular robots built by Dartmouth researchers are finding their feet outdoors. Engineered to assemble into structures that ...

more complex shapes. While the modules can connect easily on the ground, climbing to build vertical structures is harder.

Robots built from 3D-printed blocks navigated outdoor obstacles, formed bridges, and worked with drones to assemble ...

3D-printed mini-actuators can move small soft robots, lock them into new shapes Date: June 11, 2024 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers have demonstrated miniature soft ...

More information: Qingkun Liu et al, Electronically configurable microscopic metasheet robots, Nature Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02007-7 Provided by Cornell University ...

The Mori3 robots, with their ability to transform into virtually any 3D shape, offer a cost-effective and versatile solution for tasks in space.

One important aspect of polygons is that they are two-dimensional, and so are the ones that can form the Mori3 robot. By the way, Mori is an acronym for Modular Origami Robots.

Nature, particularly humans and other animals, has always been among the primary sources of inspiration for roboticists. In ...

Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into ...

It just got a little easier to create soft robots that adapt to the world around them. Rice University researchers have developed a 3D printing technique (they call it “4D”) for material that ...