Video Reel: MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
29 January 2020
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A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up with a surprisingly simple scheme for swarms of robots to achieve a true hive-like mind of coordination: self-assembling cubes that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, and roll across the ground.
Six years after the project’s first iteration, the robots can now communicate with each other using a barcode-like system on each face of the block that allows the modules to identify each other. The autonomous fleet of 16 blocks can now accomplish simple tasks or behaviours, such as forming a line, following arrows, or tracking light.
Inside each modular ‘M-Block’ is a flywheel that moves at 20 000 revolutions per minute, using angular momentum when the flywheel is braked. On each edge and every face are permanent magnets that let any two cubes attach to each other. Watch them in action at www.dataweek.co.za/*jan20-robotcubes
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