Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

A team of engineers at Northwestern University has built a new class of modular robots called “legged metamachines,” which ...

Modular self-reconfigurable robotics encompasses systems in which individual robotic units can autonomously adjust their configuration to adapt to varying tasks and environmental conditions. These ...

AI-designed metamachines run in the wild, recover from damage and transform into new shapes, according to recent studies.

The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility. The system could be used to assemble ...

The Interactive and Robotic Systems Lab (IRS) group at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has developed a mobile, lightweight, modular and reconfigurable manipulator robot, which includes a remote ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a ...

MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various ...