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SquishBot - Advanced Chemistry Robot that Inches, Climbs and Deforms * O2 ^+ N$ H6 F$ C1 x% W! ]8 u
SquishBot – 能緩慢爬行,攀爬和變形的化學(xué)機(jī)器人
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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.
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- _2 A0 e% o" d* V- p# y V SquishBot是一個(gè)發(fā)展新型的“軟體可變形機(jī)器人”的計(jì)劃。目的是設(shè)計(jì)一種能夠根據(jù)指令,由軟到硬,又由硬到軟的改變自身形態(tài)的系統(tǒng)。另一個(gè)目的是創(chuàng)造一個(gè)可以大幅度改變自身關(guān)鍵尺寸(達(dá)10倍)的系統(tǒng)。這類機(jī)器人會(huì)像軟體動(dòng)物一樣壓扁自己來(lái)通過(guò)小開(kāi)口和進(jìn)入狹小的空間。
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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. 3 F9 s! j2 Q' R ^- w8 Q; }
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0 p3 U* o) b- @# g 波士頓動(dòng)力領(lǐng)導(dǎo)小組,包括麻省理工學(xué)院的材料專家和變形結(jié)構(gòu)專家。這個(gè)項(xiàng)目綜合(leverage)了麻省理工學(xué)院開(kāi)發(fā)蛞蝓機(jī)器人的工作和波士頓動(dòng)力的爬行、行走、攀爬機(jī)器人的工作。SquishBot作為ChemBot項(xiàng)目的一部分,得到到防御遠(yuǎn)景研究規(guī)劃局(DARPA)國(guó)防科學(xué)辦公室的資助。
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注:ChemBot是美國(guó)iRobot公司研發(fā)出一款外形恐怖的化學(xué)機(jī)器人,ChemBot整體顛覆了機(jī)器人的傳統(tǒng)形象。ChemBot整體外形就像一個(gè)不規(guī)則的球,靠改變其外形進(jìn)行移動(dòng)。其設(shè)計(jì)過(guò)程中利用了“堵塞”原理,通過(guò)增加液體密度使液體變?yōu)楣腆w狀態(tài)的物理過(guò)程。
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