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How termite-inspired robots could build for us

Posted by Thomas J Coyle III on February 13, 2014 at 6:43pm

Scientists designed these robots to react their immediate environment.

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN

Highlights:

Small robots can behave like termites to build structures.

The idea might be applied to send robots to space.

These robots have wheel-legs called "whegs".

Project was launched at Harvard University engineering school.

Full article here: Termite-inspired robots

Tags: havard, build, robots, structures, termites-inspired
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  • Distributor
    Guto Santaella February 14, 2014 at 3:21am

    @Sandro, he looks like Wall-e

    :-)

    Very cool!

  • Developer
    Sandro Benigno February 14, 2014 at 3:09am

    This video is so cool:

  • nxt3d February 13, 2014 at 7:10pm

    This is similar to the quadcopters that can build things in swarms as well. Is there a general term for this? 

    I propose swarm crafting, or swarm building, or even swarm printing. 

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