Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Milli-scale cellular robots that can reconfigure morphologies and behaviors simultaneously

  • Xiong Yang,
  • Rong Tan,
  • Haojian Lu,
  • Toshio Fukuda,
  • Yajing Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31913-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Modular robots with reconfigurable architectures show advantages in unpredicted environments. Here Yang et al. propose a heterogeneous assembly concept for cellular robot construction at millimeter scales, which can simultaneously reconfigure their morphologies and behaviours to conduct versatile tasks on demand.