This bot comes flat like a piece of IKEA furniture, making it great for space missions.
, multiple Mori3 bots are shown to fuse together and alter their overall shape to form a single, walking quadrupedal machine. In another video, an array of flat, triangular Mori3’s manage to morph and position itself into the upright, three-dimensional same walking robot.
“We had to rethink the way we understand robotics,” added Christoph Belke, a robotics researcher at EPFL and one of study’s other co-authors. “These robots can change their own shape, attach to each other, communicate and reconfigure to form functional and articulated structures.” Check out videos from EPFL showcasing a single Mori3’s 2D movement, as well as a team’s combined 3D capabilities below:Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work also featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
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