What if there was a robotic system that could reconfigure itself, complete with self-healing abilities? Meet the innovative Freeform Robot. This means that it can easily adapt to various tasks in complex, ever changing environments.
Each one of these modules would consist of an interior with two motorized wheels and a permanent magnet. The latter keeps the vehicle stuck to the inside of the sphere, and when the wheels spin, the shell rolls forward or backward, while driving the wheels independently turns the ferromagnetic shell. Two individual robots can touch without connecting because the iron shells are not permanent magnets.
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This project aims to develop key technologies for modular self-reconfiguration robots to be applied in unstructured environments. The research results can lay a theoretical and technical foundation for developing robotic swarms and field robots. They can also be widely used in search and rescue, space exploration, etc.,” said the researchers.
