Robots autonomously self-assemble into dedicated morphologies to solve different tasks
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We present the first real-world multi-robot system that can autonomously self-assemble (and dis-assemble) to form different morphologies capable of solving tasks that appear in an a priori unknown order.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010