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NASA’s ambitious plan to create transforming self-configuring robots is very sci-fi, but judging by these pictures they seem to be well on there way:

Superbot’s modular design shows the ability to create a two-legged robot.

Cool huh, but I’m pretty sure this is just NASA’s entry for RobotWars. They just haven’t attached the flamethrower yet.

NASA wanted a robot that could start as 100 blocky modules dropped from an airplane to a desert, reconfigure into a rover that could drive to a sand dune, and then change again to “grow” legs and climb up it. Once the blocky robot reached the top, it would transform into a greenhouse that could protect a group of seeds for two weeks.

Superbot’s modular design allows it to reconfigure and have any number of legs.

Superbot’s flexible design allows it to travel using a variety of sizes and shapes.

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~ by Fionnlagh on July 9, 2009.

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Tags: artificial intelligence (AI), Credit: Shen/USC, morphing, NASA, robotics, self-configuring robot, shape-shift, Superbot: The Real Transformer, Transformer Robot Really Tranforms