Comments on: Transforming Robot Video Roundup

By: REEM

REEM — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:03:32 +0000

WOW! very cool videos i like so much i really enjoyed to see these….

By: Chris Beortch

Chris Beortch — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:45:37 +0000

Wow. hold on brb. gotta go clean up because i jizzed rainbows after I saw this.

By: CHARLES MICHAEL COLLINS

CHARLES MICHAEL COLLINS — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:43:02 +0000

CAN THEY MAKE LUNCH YET?

By: shawnwalton

shawnwalton — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:45:44 +0000

please help me build a transforming robot

By: Will

Will — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:52:01 +0000

Sweet. Totally cool. I’ve always had an interest in artificial intelligence. Thanks for getting back to me so soon. I’ve bookmarked this site, so I’ll be back.

By: Hrafn

Hrafn — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:19:22 +0000

Hey Will,

…is that a precursor for a cyborg repairing itself or putting itself back together again?

Yes and no: Yes, one benefit is that the robot can reassemble itself, but the main idea is that each “unit” of the robot knows how to build replicas of itself (its natural state being a tower of modules).

The importance of the second idea is easier to imagine if we pretend they are as small as a speck of dust. If we had thousands of our imaginary mini-modules, then they could cooperatively organize themselves into tools to construct replicas of themselves (or something else).

By: Will

Will — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:59 +0000

These are kickass videos. Am I understanding them correctly though? The one video of the cubes being disassembled and easily coming back together again…is that a precursor for a cyborg repairing itself or putting itself back together again? For example, if a robot loses an arm or some sort of extremity, he can easily place it back on himself because of the technology we’re seeing here, correct? I was just wondering. Anyways, looks great!