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Ckbot: A self-assembling robot

This amazing robot is defined as unbreakable robot, which is the most popular exhibition at Wired Next Fest 2008.

Kick it, smash it, or drop it from on high — professor Mark Yim's modular ckBot can take a licking and reassemble itself afterward. Scattered about, its modules can detect one another using infrared, smart cameras, and radio beacons, then slink across the floor and magnetically reconnect to form a bipedal bot capable of walking on flat surfaces. Break the ckBot as often as you like; this great-grandfather of Terminator 2 is designed to withstand the everyday accidents that would doom a lesser robot to the scrap heap

The engineers who made this robot are continuing to research about modular robots, which represent the future of robotics. Visit their website: Modlab in University of Pennsylvania

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