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This reconfigurable robot comes from roboticist Mark Yim and is an innovative design that can automatically put itself back together after it’s been kicked apart. Yim is developing his reconfigurable robot at the University of Pennsylvania. The end product of research from roboticists like Yim is to create technology that will lead to shape-shifting objects. Such an invention can dramatically reduce the clutter in our toolboxes, garages and homes by automatically changing its form to accommodate its intended use.  Yim gives a dramatic demonstration, which he calls the first case of "self-assembly after explosion". It starts with a 15-module robot walking on two legs. A student kicks it apart and it falls into three pieces, each made up of four "ordinary" modules and one camera module. The pieces wiggle across the floor towards one another, guided by images from the camera and computer-vision algorithms. They then reconnect, re-forming the original robot, which slowly rises and walks on.
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