Spatial
The Origin of Mass by Aleksandar Rodic
The Origin of Mass is an experimental video created as a final project by Aleksandar Rodic for his procedural animation class at Savannah College of Art and Design. It was inspired by demo-scene and sub-atomic particle collision images. The name comes from the Higgs Boson particle which is expected to provide a scientific foundation for the origin of mass in the universe. More info on the website.
No Comments »Robotic Furniture by MKare
Interesting robotic furniture concept. mKare is a mobile care unit designed to help seniors who have suffered a stroke and thus have lost mobility on side of their body. This robot helps assist these seniors.
No Comments »Robot Prototype by Kyuseon Hong
Interesting metamorphic robotic prototypes developed by Kyuseon Hong at Columbia School of Architecture taught by Francois Roche. Website describing the project can be found here.
No Comments »Spatial Robot Prototypes by Miles Kemp
Nano Meta-morphic Architecture consists of a palette of small-scale self-similar robotic modules that have the ability to dynamically move and attach to other modules to create different configurations in real-time. Each module has a different material on its exterior, various hardware (sensors, accelerometers, computation and kinetics) and computational logic to enable it to interpret and physically respond to different local and global inputs. Inhabitants can use hundreds of thousands of these modules to create and recreate dynamic real-time formations. This project included the design of the overall geometry, logic and behavior of the modules as well as the creation and development of fully working prototypes. Project link at Series Design/Build and Variate Labs.
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CirculaFloor Robotic VR Movement
CirculaFloor is a locomotion interface using a group of movable tiles. The movable tiles employ holonomic mechanism that achieves omni-directional motion. Circulation of the tiles enables the user to walk in virtual environment while his/her position is maintained. The user can walk in arbitrary direction in virtual environment. This project is a joint research with ATR Media Information Science Labs. Learn more at the website.
2 Comments »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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Self-Assembling Robotic Cluster
Another self-similar robot capable of self-assembly and self-organization.
Multiple Kill Vehicle by Missile Defense Agency
The device — meant to be used in a bundle of missile interceptors deployed by a larger “carrier” — has apparently just completed its first flight test.
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