I ran across a few videos I thought I’d share.

Here is one of a robotic, self-healing/repairing chair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNIz1lg2_AQ

Maybe a little slow, but if you can look a little distance in the future, you might be able to see a time when self-assembling robots will be able to organize themselves in to any number of structures, even reusing various parts to configure themselves from a chair to a bed to a table… anything that you might need at that time. If a part breaks, then other (spare) robots could re-assign themselves to fill in for the needed part.

Here are a few short videos of robots which are learning to walk/move on their own…. even to the point of discovering how their own body is put together. The most interesting thing about these robots is the fact that they are not pre-programming with any notion on HOW to move, and it is left up to them to discover the BEST way to get from one place to another. The advantage of this method is that the robot can try hundreds or thousands of different motion combinations, test them all, and find the absolute best method to move the farthest, the fastest, and/or the most efficient, and that could very well be in such a way that a human never would have thought of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNdDsK_t1Vs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwtaaESP4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ont07BS3bBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCbvl5Bak8

February 20th, 2007
Categories: RobotsAndAI . Author: rock808

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