Designing Modular RobotsEric Schweikardt

Modular robots are a fantastic media for

designers to model, think about, and build

complex systems of their own.

Specifically:- Parallel Systems- Switching Levels- Modularity and Hierarchy

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Now that we have kits like roBlocks, how will we design things with them?

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Future Work:

End-user roBlocks programmingMore design problems for the Erstwhile AgentA genotypic language for constructions

THANKS- My advisors: Mark D. Gross Illah Nourbakhsh Metin Sitti- The Computational Design Lab: Gabe, Mike, Yeonjoo, Ben, Jet, Sora, Ellen- Susan Finger- Katie Levedahl- Tina Blaine- National Science Foundation

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