Modular self‐reconfigurable robots present wide and unique solutions for growing demands
in the domains of space exploration, automation, consumer products, and so forth. The …

This article presents a comprehensive survey of reconfigurable modular robots, which
covers the origin, history, the state of the art, key technologies, challenges, and applications …

Modular, self-reconfigurable robots show the promise of great versatility, robustness and low
cost. The paper presents examples and issues in realizing those promises. PolyBot is a …

Self-reconfigurable robots are modular robots that can autonomously change their shape
and size to meet specific operational demands. Recently, there has been a great interest in …

We discuss a robotic system composed of Crystalline modules. Crystalline modules can
aggregate together to form distributed robot systems. Crystalline modules can move relative …

Enhancing productivity, reducing inaccuracy and avoiding time waste at changeover are
considered major drivers in manufacturing system design. One of the emerging paradigms …

A Telecube is a cubic module that has six prismatic degrees of freedom whose sides can
expand more than twice its original length and has the ability to magnetically (de) attach to …

Chain modular robots form systems with many degrees of freedom which are capable of
being reconfigured to form arbitrary chain-based topologies. This reconfiguration requires …

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The goal of the Conro Project is to build deployable modular robots that can reconfigure into
different shapes such as snakes or hexapods. Each Conro module is, itself, a robot and …