This article reviews the current state of the art in the development of modular reconfigurable
robot (MRR) systems and suggests promising future research directions. A wide variety of …

Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific
shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact …

In this study, a comprehensive review of achievements in the self‐reconfigurable modular
robotics field and future directions are given. Self‐reconfigurable modular robots (SRMRs) …

Many factors such as size, power, and weight constrain the design of modular snake robots.
Meeting these constraints requires implementing a complex mechanical and electrical …

This paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of a new lattice based self-
reconfigurable robot, called the ATRON. The ATRON system consists of several fully self …

This paper presents PneUI, an enabling technology to build shape-changing interfaces
through pneumatically-actuated soft composite materials. The composite materials integrate …

Self-reconfigurable robots are robots that can change their shape in order to better suit their
given task in their immediate environment. Related work on around fifteen such robots is …

Here we introduce one simulated and two physical three-dimensional stochastic modular
robot systems, all capable of self-assembly and self-reconfiguration. We assume that …

Moving in an unstructured environment such as soil requires approaches that are
constrained by the physics of this complex medium and can ensure energy efficiency and …

BACKGROUND Agents are Software entities. Many agents may run as processes in a single
computer. Agents may run in multi processors or in computers that are connected by a …