{"id":10249,"date":"2013-10-07T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/amazing_self-organizing_robots_from_mit.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:50","slug":"amazing-self-organizing-robots-from-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/amazing-self-organizing-robots-from-mit.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Self-Organizing Robots from MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; it feels like you are looking at the future when you watch these <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/mit-m-blocks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2013\/10\/mit-m-blocks-thumb-384x388-13148.png\" alt=\"mit-m-blocks.png\" width=\"384\" height=\"388\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>self-organizing robots designed by MIT researchers work together to form different shapes. Each M-block is a marvel of technology &#8211; about the size of a few ice cubes, they contain a process motor controller, flywheel, braking mechanism, electronics, radio, battery and numerous magnets. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, these modular robots are unique because they are able to jump &#8211; its truly fascinating to watch them jump as they connect with one another while making different shapes &#8211; thanks to angular momentum.<\/p>\n<p>If you start to think about these devices getting smaller &#8211; it may not be long before these robots can form a number of objects which you may need in your home like a stepping stool, temporary nightstand and more. One wonders how this technology may actually evolve and somehow merge with 3D printing tech to allow the creation of even more temporary objects.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6aZbJS6LZbs\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is the future seems to be getting closer by the day and self-organizing robots may be a huge field which changes the way we think about many of the fixed objects we rely on today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; it feels like you are looking at the future when you watch these self-organizing robots designed by MIT researchers work together to form different shapes. Each M-block is a marvel of technology &#8211; about the size of a few ice cubes, they contain a process motor controller, flywheel, braking mechanism, electronics, radio, battery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18910,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/18910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}