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Designing Modular RobotsEric Schweikardt
Modular robots are a fantastic media for
designers to model, think about, and build
complex systems of their own.
Specifically:- Parallel Systems- Switching Levels- Modularity and Hierarchy
roBlocks
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Now that we have kits like roBlocks, how will we design things with them?
“The Erstwhile Agent”
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Future Work:
End-user roBlocks programmingMore design problems for the Erstwhile AgentA genotypic language for constructions
THANKS- My advisors: Mark D. Gross Illah Nourbakhsh Metin Sitti- The Computational Design Lab: Gabe, Mike, Yeonjoo, Ben, Jet, Sora, Ellen- Susan Finger- Katie Levedahl- Tina Blaine- National Science Foundation
www.roblocks.org
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