Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes size and even changes between solid and “fluid-like” states-a concept that must be familiar to anyone T -1000 robotic killers “Terminator 2.” From
A team led by Matthew Deavalin of UC Santa Barbara described this work A paper recently published in scienceWriting that “the vision of the harmonious collectives of robotic units that can virtually arranged in any form with any physical qualities … has long conspired to both science and fiction.”
Otagar Campus, a professor at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Told ARS Technica This team was inspired by tissues in the fetus and to design and design robots with similar abilities. These robots have motorized gears that allow them to move inside the collective, magnets so that they can be attached, and photodateters who allow them to obtain instructions from a flashlight with a polarization filter.
Campus stated that the reality is “away from the terminator cheese,” remains with shape and electricity challenges. Researchers’ robots were slightly higher than 5 cm in diameter, although the target is to make them 1 or 2 centimeters, or even smaller.
