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Cody Carey
09-02-2006, 23:47
I am sorry... I didn't know where to post this and still get to you mechanical/programming guys, so here it is :)
( Moderators: If you do not find this to be the appropriate place for this thread, then by all means move it :) )


Before you get angry... BEHOLD!

http://media.putfile.com/Robot72



More info is here

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/selfrep.ws.html

I, for one, am amazed, there are So many uses... You could put a thousand of them in a room, and if they were programmed right, make them into anything!

What do you guys think?
DCA Fan
09-02-2006, 23:53
That's some pretty crazy stuff.
d.courtney
10-02-2006, 15:21
that is the coolest yet most pointless robot I've ever seen

ok edit: it isn't the most pointless I only watched the movie and the whole fact that it replicated itself didn't cross my mind... I haven't slept in a while so forgive me
henryBsick
10-02-2006, 15:27
For those of you who are more akin to google video... (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2338968448169667271&q=robotics)
Aburame Shino
10-02-2006, 15:37
Reminds me of the living stairs from the Harry Potter movies. As cool as that thing is though, what would you use it for besides your own personal amusement? I'm sure there's something, but I can't really think of anything.
paulcd2000
10-02-2006, 15:55
so freakishly awesome. I can think of hundreds of possible uses
phrontist
10-02-2006, 16:04
If they can communicate between themselves there are all sorts of self-organizing applications... it's really very cool, I'm suprised it hasn't been posted here before.
MrBlack298
10-02-2006, 17:27
Reminds me of the living stairs from the Harry Potter movies. As cool as that thing is though, what would you use it for besides your own personal amusement? I'm sure there's something, but I can't really think of anything.

you kind of already said it: :ahh: moving staircases :ahh:
ida_noeman
10-02-2006, 17:35
That's pretty cool - but you'd have to have some sort of manipulator part to have it useful.
How is it programmed? Where is the programming?
Awsome, anyway.
phrontist
10-02-2006, 20:32
That's pretty cool - but you'd have to have some sort of manipulator part to have it useful.
How is it programmed? Where is the programming?
Awsome, anyway.

Imagine them as 1mm cubes... make your own manipulator! Since they can replicate themsevles, you can vary the degree of precision of a specific peice easily!
agndoggieboi
10-02-2006, 20:46
:) omg that was completely awsome!!! now if there was like plenty of them then i can play actual tetris with that thing :)
sciencenerd
11-02-2006, 12:48
Reminds me of the living stairs from the Harry Potter movies. As cool as that thing is though, what would you use it for besides your own personal amusement? I'm sure there's something, but I can't really think of anything.

I read an article about these a few months ago, I can't remember where. This is a proof of concept. It isn't intended to do anything itself, just to show what is possible. For example, you could have different "manipulator" attachments as well as "movement" cubes, and it could pick the best shape and manipulator for a given task, then quickly switch to a new one for a new task. The possibilities are endless.


Imagine them as 1mm cubes... make your own manipulator! Since they can replicate themsevles, you can vary the degree of precision of a specific peice easily!


Actually, these things can't replicate... yet. However, is it possible? Yes. And that is what will make these things truly useful. People have been demonstrating nano scale creations for years. And now they have a macro-scale completely modular robotic system. All that remains to be done is integrate these two technologies, and they will become powerful. Add in self-replication, and they will be unstoppable.
Alekat
11-02-2006, 13:08
All that remains to be done is integrate these two technologies, and they will become powerful. Add in self-replication, and they will be unstoppable.

Not as easy as adding a dash of salt, but it would definitely be revolutionary.
Stephen P
11-02-2006, 19:41
Sweet, I saw this same robot when I visited Cornell last spring break and a professor showed me his lab.
Matt Royek
11-02-2006, 21:43
That would be very useful if it was to be expanded by quite a bit in size. Mainly because something that is that small wouldn't be useful for anything else than what it was doing.

But if you were able to stick something like that into a size of a robotic arm on such things as production lines. It could do so much in places like loading docks!