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SquishBot - Advanced Chemistry Robot that Inches, Climbs and Deforms
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SquishBot is a program to develop a new class of soft, shape-changing robot. The goal is to design systems that can transform themselves from hard to soft and from soft to hard, upon command. Another goal is to create systems that change their critical dimensions by large amounts, as much as 10x. Such robots will be like soft animals that can squeeze themselves through small openings and into tight places. ; D! L* A$ u0 A
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SquishBot是一個發展新型的“軟體可變形機器人”的計劃。目的是設計一種能夠根據指令,由軟到硬,又由硬到軟的改變自身形態的系統。另一個目的是創造一個可以大幅度改變自身關鍵尺寸(達10倍)的系統。這類機器人會像軟體動物一樣壓扁自己來通過小開口和進入狹小的空間。
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3 f/ f, y" N. ^- d: y. _The Boston Dynamics-lead team includes researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specialize in novel materials and deformable structures. The program leverages MIT's previous work developing slug robots and Boston Dynamics' work on robots that crawl, walk and climb. SquishBot is funded by the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA as part of the ChemBot program.
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* g9 x4 E* {9 |2 N- w 波士頓動力領導小組,包括麻省理工學院的材料專家和變形結構專家。這個項目綜合(leverage)了麻省理工學院開發蛞蝓機器人的工作和波士頓動力的爬行、行走、攀爬機器人的工作。SquishBot作為ChemBot項目的一部分,得到到防御遠景研究規劃局(DARPA)國防科學辦公室的資助。9 `* W$ k& v) s3 ~3 p2 ^
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注:ChemBot是美國iRobot公司研發出一款外形恐怖的化學機器人,ChemBot整體顛覆了機器人的傳統形象。ChemBot整體外形就像一個不規則的球,靠改變其外形進行移動。其設計過程中利用了“堵塞”原理,通過增加液體密度使液體變為固體狀態的物理過程。
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