A Cornell-led team has developed modular robots that can perceive their surroundings, make decisions and autonomously assume different shapes in order to perform various tasks – an accomplishment that ...

A research team led by Cornell University has demonstrated a bunch of modular robots that move together as one, but break apart and reform as a different shape that's better suited to the assigned ...

In a video out of North Carolina State University and Duke, five tiny cubes float freely under a microscope. Suddenly two pairs snap together, before all five combine into a single unit. Once together ...

A prototype for an interactive mobile device, called Cubimorph, can change shape on-demand. The modular interactive device, made out of a chain of cubes, contributes towards the vision of programmable ...

What's better at being a wheel than ... a wheel? That is not a rhetorical question or a Zen kōan or the start to an awesome joke (sorry). Inventor David Patrick, an avid skateboarder, stumbled (or, ...

A wide-open cargo trailer that becomes a smartly configured two-story camper, the new Cube 3 from Sportcaravan is a "great transformer" meant to serve as the ultimate modular trailer. It alternates ...

Cornell and Pennsylvania Universities develop modular robot system that can perceive its surroundings and autonomously assume different shapes suited to the task it has been given No matter how useful ...

It's happened to the best of us: You decide to unzip your suitcase to get one thing and suddenly, your suitcase has erupted and all your belongings are in an unkempt pile on the floor. This is why ...

Modular robots with the ability to make decisions and autonomously reconfigure themselves brings the vision of adaptive, multipurpose robots a step closer to reality. A Cornell University-led team ...