{"id":151243,"date":"2022-11-27T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-are-building-robots-that-can-build-themselves"},"modified":"2022-11-27T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:23:19","slug":"researchers-are-building-robots-that-can-build-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-are-building-robots-that-can-build-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Researchers are building robots that can build themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G94FDMGLwCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT\u2019s Center for Bits and Atoms are working on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/assembler-robots-structures-voxels-1122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ambitious project<\/a>, designing robots that effectively self-assemble. The team admits that the goal of an autonomous self-building robot is still \u201cyears away,\u201d but the work has thus far demonstrated positive results.<\/p>\n<p>At the system\u2019s center are voxels (a term borrowed from computer graphics), which carry power and data that can be shared between pieces. The pieces form the foundation of the robot, grabbing and attaching additional voxels before moving across the grid for further assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers note in an associated paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44172-022-00034-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in Nature<\/a>, \u201cOur approach challenges the convention that larger constructions need larger machines to build them, and could be applied in areas that today either require substantial capital investments for fixed infrastructure or are altogether unfeasible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT\u2019s Center for Bits and Atoms are working on an ambitious project, designing robots that effectively self-assemble. The team admits that the goal of an autonomous self-building robot is still \u201cyears away,\u201d but the work has thus far demonstrated positive results. At the system\u2019s center are voxels (a term borrowed from computer graphics), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}