http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-reconfigurable-miniature-robot Accelerating Intelligence Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-reconfigurable-miniature-robot/comment-page-1#comment-62037 Bri Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:45:49 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=173180#comment-62037 This is a prototype of a legos like building block. From it we can learn the intrinsic rules of structure. In one of the Trsnsformer movies thru had a robot that assembled itself from tiny subunits. It's also the basic idea behind GORT, from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.. He was a swarming mass of tiny robotic subunits. It doesn't look like much but it will eventuailly become an amazing technology. This is a prototype of a legos like building block. From it we can learn the intrinsic rules of structure. In one of the Trsnsformer movies thru had a robot that assembled itself from tiny subunits. It’s also the basic idea behind GORT, from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.. He was a swarming mass of tiny robotic subunits. It doesn’t look like much but it will eventuailly become an amazing technology.

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-reconfigurable-miniature-robot/comment-page-1#comment-61776 asiwel Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:09:08 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=173180#comment-61776 Without exaggeration, this is truly awesome research. This is the kind of thinking I most appreciate! Future possibilities for this are likely to be amazing. Thank you, Editor, for bringing this kind of news. Without exaggeration, this is truly awesome research. This is the kind of thinking I most appreciate! Future possibilities for this are likely to be amazing. Thank you, Editor, for bringing this kind of news.

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-reconfigurable-miniature-robot/comment-page-1#comment-61709 Gorden Russell Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:39:07 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=173180#comment-61709 It’s part of an overall approach, Gershenfeld explains, to “turning data into things.” Sounds like he's talking about printing robots. Most of the big pieces do look printable, but the magnets will have to be supplied as parts of a kit...still...there is neodymium in those nickel-iron asteroids, and a lot of the craters on the moon were made by the impacts of these asteroids. So the metal to make the magnets can be found out in space, but it will take a sizable plant to process the metals. But once they have been refined, NASA already has a way to use them. An article named "3D-printed rocket parts" was posted here on the Kurzweil Newsletter last November 11, 2012. In it, ”selective laser melting” was discussed. If you don't remember it, check it out. It’s part of an overall approach, Gershenfeld explains, to “turning data into things.” Sounds like he’s talking about printing robots. Most of the big pieces do look printable, but the magnets will have to be supplied as parts of a kit…still…there is neodymium in those nickel-iron asteroids, and a lot of the craters on the moon were made by the impacts of these asteroids. So the metal to make the magnets can be found out in space, but it will take a sizable plant to process the metals. But once they have been refined, NASA already has a way to use them. An article named “3D-printed rocket parts” was posted here on the Kurzweil Newsletter last November 11, 2012. In it, ”selective laser melting” was discussed. If you don’t remember it, check it out.

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