Reconfigurable
Festo Molecubes
The Molecubes website has tons of great information if you want to learn more. The original Molecubes video developed by Hod Lipson and students at the Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory below:
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Giant Gundam Robot
On my last trip to Tokyo I saw a giant Gundam Robot in the park. It was absolutely amazing and the scale of the robot alone was unlike anything I have ever seen. It makes me think that it will be possible in my lifetime to build actual fully robotic structures. Amazing.
1 Comment »Snake Robots by CMU Biorobotics Lab
Amazing snake robot locomation. Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot. These highly articulated devices can coordinate their internal degrees of freedom to perform a variety of locomotive gaits that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and legged robots. The true power of these devices is their versatility; they can crawl, climb, swim, and scale flights of stairs.
1 Comment »Miles Kemp Featured on City of Sound
Miles was featured on City of Sound. Thanks Dan Hill! Quote from the feature: “Robert Miles Kemp’s talk was always interesting and occasionally spellbinding, most of all when showing the work in responsive robotic structures. His videos of simple blocks self-assembling into what he called “nano-architecture” are quite extraordinary… Kemp situated this within a wider context of interactive and informational architecture, centred around his work at Variate Labs and renowned new media deisgn firm Schematic (and his blog, Spatial Robots) described in a consistently interesting talk, covering many of the primary themes in contemporary interface design – and indeed extending the idea of where and what interfaces are.”
Self-Assembling Robotic Cluster
Another self-similar robot capable of self-assembly and self-organization.
Yakuza Lou by Eddy Sykes
Eddy Sykes’ Yakuza Lou is a site-specific installation that uses the relationship between the natural and mechanical notions of landscape, to create a unique garden with pushing and folding topographic surfaces and a robot cloud that floats overhead creating a volume in constant pseudo-natural flux.
No Comments »Mtran 2 and 3 by DSDRG
The Distributed System Design Research Group began experimenting with different generations of the MTran 2 robots in the hopes of creating a system of self similar robotic modules that would have the ability to change their geometry to accomplish goals. Rapid prototyping, particularly involving the fabrication of electronic parts and a laser cut plastics allow for modules to be inexpensively and quickly manufactured. Much of the logic behind this system mimmicks animal body typology and locomotion. But this system based on its geometry has the ability to nest creating solid objects, limiting gaps between objects. Self-similar modules have the ability to wirelessly connect and reconnect through physical male-female connections.
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Robert Miles Kemp Bio
Miles Kemp is the founder and principal of Variate LABS and Series Design/Build. Miles is currently developing a number of interface, robotic and spatial projects in Los Angeles, New York, London, Mexico City and Munich. Miles also works as a Senior User Experience Designer and Information Architect for Schematic Inc. specifically developing next generation interfaces for web, touch, gesture and other emerging technology platforms. In addition to his professional work, Miles also created and moderates a blog about robotics and emerging technologies in architecture, www.spatialrobots.com.
