What if robots could reassemble themselves at will? The liquid metal cyborg in Terminator was terrifyingly useful. It could look like anyone, repair shotgun blasts, even turn its hand into a murderous ...

Almost exactly six years ago, we reported on the first iteration of the self-assembling cube robots called M-Blocks. Since then, they've become exponentially more radical. Here in October of 2019, the ...

Out of all the cool-looking forms that robots can take – humanoid, dogs, fish, crocodiles, snakes, birds, or disembodied arms – a cube seems like a pretty boring choice. But MIT’s new take on the ...

MIT has announced the development of self-assembling robotic cubes. The cubes can climb over and around each other, jump in the air, and roll across the ground. The robots are now able to communicate ...

Back in October, we heard about MIT's M-Blocks – they're metal cubes that use internal flywheels to hurl themselves around, sticking together magnetically to form simple structures. Now, scientists ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbJS6LZbs&w=640&h=480] Looking at these reconfiguring robo-cubes, created by research scientists at MIT in the face of ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled small, cube-shaped robots that can flip, jump, stack and assemble themselves into larger shapes with no exterior moving parts. The ...

As a senior at MIT in 2011, John Romanishin proposed a new approach to modular robotics that relied on magnets, flywheels, and the laws of physics. While his mentors and colleagues were skeptical his ...

There’s a flywheel inside each block, which provides the angular momentum to flip the cube from side to side, combined with a magnet to let the cubes stick to each other. The force from the flywheel ...

Picture this: self-assembling blocks that, when given a task, have the ability to reorganize themselves into new geometries. Till now, robots have depended on arms or attachments to move themselves.