Published on: 2025-07-08 13:52:44
In Brief Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone still haunted by nightmares of the T-1000 robotic assassin from “Terminator 2.” A team led by Matthew Devlin of UC Santa Barbara described this work in a paper recently published in Science, writing that the vision of “cohesive collectives of robotic units that can arrange into virtually an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 05:22:00
In a nutshell: Researchers have developed minuscule robots that can "assemble" and behave like a collective, building new shapes and tools. Inspired by nature, the team identified and developed the main features a robotic collective would need to achieve its programmed goal. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) designed a "material-like" collective of programmable micro-robots, which can behave like a fluid or bond together to create new solid structures. The tech
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