{"id":70504,"date":"2022-11-23T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=70504"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:39:05","slug":"mit-researchers-demonstrate-intelligent-self-assembling-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/mit-researchers-demonstrate-intelligent-self-assembling-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT researchers demonstrate intelligent self-assembling robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at MIT&#8217;s Center for Bits and Atoms <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/assembler-robots-structures-voxels-1122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launched<\/a> a project to create robots capable of assembling themselves into larger structures.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Assembler robots could eventually build almost anything\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G94FDMGLwCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The team concedes that the development of such a fully autonomous device will take years, but there are already encouraging results.<\/p>\n<p>The system demonstrated by the researchers comprises large useful structures, made up of an array of tiny identical subunits \u2014 <span data-descr=\"volumetric equivalent of a 2D pixel\" class=\"old_tooltip\">voxels<\/span>. Each of them can transmit energy and data from one device to another. <\/p>\n<p>This enables the construction of architectures capable of withstanding loads and performing work such as moving and manipulating objects.<\/p>\n<p>The prototypes designed by the scientists consist of chains of voxels connected to one another. They can capture and attach additional subunits before moving along a grid for further assembly.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/output.gif\" alt=\"MIT researchers demonstrated intelligent self-assembling robots\" class=\"wp-image-191623\"\/><figcaption>Self-assembling robots. Data: MIT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Our approach challenges the convention that large machines are required to build large structures,&#8221; the researchers noted in a project-related article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44172-022-00034-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nature Communications Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They say the proposed method could be applied in areas that today either require substantial capital investment in stationary infrastructure, or are altogether impractical.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers added that developing the appropriate level of intelligence for such systems remains a major obstacle. Among other things, the robots must determine how and where to build, when to start constructing a new installation, and how to avoid accidental &#8216;collisions&#8217; in the process.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the team is trying to create sturdier connectors so that voxels do not break apart and stay together.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe that using robots to determine the optimal assembly will save engineers a great deal of time spent on prototyping.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory helped fund the MIT project.<\/p>\n<p>In August, researchers at the University of Montpellier created a DNA nanobot. The device, about the size of a human cell, will help study viruses and pathogens at the microscopic level.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, researchers, using AI, created &#8216;living&#8217; robots capable of reproduction. They consume single-celled organisms and recreate themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at MIT&#8217;s Center for Bits and Atoms launched a project to create robots capable of assembling themselves into larger structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,147,167,652],"class_list":["post-70504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-mit","tag-research","tag-robots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70505,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504\/revisions\/70505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}