Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Mergeable nervous systems for robots

  • Nithin Mathews,
  • Anders Lyhne Christensen,
  • Rehan O’Grady,
  • Francesco Mondada,
  • Marco Dorigo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00109-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Robots that can self-assemble into different morphologies are desired to perform tasks that require different physical capabilities. Mathews et al. design robots whose bodies and control systems can merge and split to form new robots that retain full sensorimotor control and act as a single entity.