#robotics #selfassembling #swarm #swarmrobotics

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#robotics   #selfassembling   #swarm   #swarmrobotics  
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  1. Morten LyngeMay 11, 2016 at 12:07 PM

    Reminded me of this book:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocheworld

    "Rocheworld's human explorers are aided by the Dragonfly's artificial intelligence system, James. The physical extension of James is the Christmas Bush. The Christmas Bush is both a modular robot and a bush robot which both communicates through and is powered by a network of laser transceivers on its body. The Christmas Bush is similar to some recursive fractal structures where the large scale shape of the robot is repeated a number of times in progressively smaller size. A main rod divides into six smaller jointed rods which also divide into six. This is repeated again and again so that the Christmas Bush can manipulate both large and small objects. The end of each rod is where the laser transceivers are located. The Christmas Bush nickname for the robot is due to that when all the rods are fully expanded the robot has a bushy texture, and is lit up like a Christmas tree.
    Each rod and its children rods can separate from its parent rod and each carry a certain amount of computational power. The Bush or its pieces move by crawling while experiencing acceleration due to gravity or thrust, or by flying in low gravity environments. To fly, the smallest rods work together like the cilia of single celled organisms to provide thrust in any direction. The cilia also allow James to play audio and record sound through the bush."

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  2. Jessica MeyerMay 15, 2016 at 11:47 AM

    Morten Lynge sounds interesting!

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  3. Morten LyngeMay 16, 2016 at 10:02 AM

    I found it a very good one. It treated the subject of interstellar travel in a scientific way, and had lots of well-created characters in it :-)

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