When astronauts begin to build a permanent base on the moon, as NASA plans to do in the coming years, they’ll need help. Robots could potentially do the heavy lifting by laying cables, deploying solar ...
Credit – MIT News / Lordos et al. Building with LEGOs is a favored pastime for many small children and adults. But, as The LEGO Movie points out, they constitute “a highly sophisticated interlocking ...
MIT engineers have developed a universal robotic parts kit called WORMS, or the Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, designed to be easily configured and reconfigured for various missions on ...
The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility. The system could be used to assemble ...