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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Real Life Transformers? Start With Self-Folding Origami: Video | Motherboard

Real Life Transformers? Start With Self-Folding Origami: Video | Motherboard: The research was born out of work by Professor Daniela Rus, who directs the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). One of the lab’s big foci is “programmable matter,” or small, uniform robots that could snap together like intelligent Legos to create larger, more versatile robots. Yup, the Transformers.
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