A Hoberman sphere is a structure that resembles a geodesic dome but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its normal size by the scissor like action of its joints. The operation of wach joint is linked to all the others.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Hoberman Sphere
A Hoberman sphere is a structure that resembles a geodesic dome but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its normal size by the scissor like action of its joints. The operation of wach joint is linked to all the others.
Transforming Tetrahedron
Transforming in both shape and color, the Tetrahedron begins as an orange three-sided pyramid. It then unfolds into a 12-ointed star with a five-meter span and finally folds into a second, blue tetrahedron.
The Expanding Geodesic DOme blossoms open from a 1.5-meter cluster to a 6-meter structural dome when pulled open from its base. When deployed it has the same shape and trangulated pattern as Buckminister Fuller's static, geodesic dome, taking this seminal, historic structure into the 21st century.
Movie: http://hoberman.com/portfolio/expandinggeodesicdome.php?myNum=7&mytext=Expanding+Geodesic+Dome&myrollovertext=%3EExpanding+Geodesic+Dome%3C%2Fu%3E&category=&projectname=Expanding+Geodesic+Dome
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
CCSL Self Replication Robots
Hod Lipson at the Cornell Computations Synthesis Lab created intelligent robotic modules that have the ability to recreate themselves. This system was designed so that the number of modules could grow thus making it possible for the system as a whole to have more variation at a larger scale. The robots wer made using 3d printing technology compunded with individual microprocessors. Self-similar modules have the ability to wirelessly connect and reconnect through electro-magnetic male-female connections.
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Robotic Self Healing Chair
Spatial Robot Prototypes by Miles Kemp
Nano Meta-morphic Architecture consists of a palette of small-scale self-similar robotic modules that have the ability to dynamically move and attach to other modules to create different configurations in real-time. Each module has a different material on its exterior, various hardware (sensors, accelerometers, computation and kinetics) and computational logic to enable it to interpret an physically respond to different local and global inputs. Inhabitants can use hundreds of thousands of these modules to create and recreate dynamic-real-time formations.
iRobot's Shape-Shifting Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps
iRobot created a soft, shape-shifting robot blob. It can roll around and change shape, with the ability to fit through small cracks.
This soft, mobile robot was designed using jamming as an enabling technology. This shape-shifting blob in moving toward the ability to include sensors or even connect different blobs together.
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