Full Interview: Kyle Gilpin on Self-assembling Robot Pebbles




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Summary: How about a little Robot sand this summer? You know, the kind that can morph into just about any object it touches? It sounds like something from the Terminator, but it's actually technology that's being developed in Kyle Gilpin's lab at MIT. Gilpin and his post-doc supervisor Daniela Rus have developed robot pebbles that can communicate, self-assemble, and sculpt replicas of the object they surround. Whoa.