Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart

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A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other.

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[everpereiraep]

Reminds me of the iron giant

[Abstersroxx]

You're just plain stupid.

[Miguel D.]

2:11 "During assembly, another external disturbance is applied" *kick*

I'm excited to use that scientific sentence in the future.

[JohnMichael Chase]

"After successful self-reassembly, the system stands up and continues its task." *falls over*

OMG I died laughing so hard! hahaha, :P

"Welcome to standing up school," 3:00 "And you fail."

[Uber Knight]

Why kick it?it takes a LONG time to put back together

[crosbonit]

Impressive.

Seems like latching mechanisms would be in order here.

[RamsesReturns]

Incredible stuff, and the end is priceless.

[Clark MacPherson]

My cat would love to play with those things.

[TitoTheThird]

Still a long, long way from the poly-mimetic alloy of the T-1000. I think this is the T-1.

[Gabe River]

ultimate faceplant

[SeedlessCrustacean]

This really reminds me of The Iron Giant. Whenever, his body would become dislocated, a homing antenna would come out of his head and it would send a signal to his other parts.

[Takashi577]

as of now robots can literally not "think" outside the scope of the programmer so there is no need to fear robot take over lol. They will not know what to do if they run into a new situation in which its program does not have a specific case for.