SUPERBOT

Los Angeles, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) want a robot to the 100 block of modules that can be from an aircraft to land barren then changed the form of a crawler that is capable of the sand. Robots that can change form and have the arms and legs for shin hills. When a robot reaches the peak, he can change the form of a greenhouse capable of protecting a group of seedlings during the two weekends.

NASA's vision is grandiose, a new block of 20 modules already built a robot that since this ambitious project is executed, two years ago. The project is named Superbot. Director of the Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory of the University of Southern California, United States, Wei Min Shen, recently said, "Many forms of robots that can be built, but definitely expensive."

Superbot can not change the form of a truck or a fighter jet F-22 tanks in the robot movie "Transformers" latest. The researchers hope that one day Superbot can adapt to the surrounding circumstances, depending on the type of work encountered.

So far, Superbot have a combination of the two forms, the form of four feet and six feet. Superbot at six feet, a robot can rotate girth line and can perform a combination of the shin or rope. "If something needed to swarm, akan feet indeed appear. However, if you want to down the land, the robots can change shape into a ball and then roll," Shen said as quoted livescience.com. Superbot with four legs can be changed into the form of a robot with two legs fast. Robot with two legs has movement "swing swing" just as a swimmer, Shen explains.

Meanwhile, plans to make the robot has been living in mind Shen. Later life is a robot capable of changing shape and able to repair themselves. The idea of living this robot also attract some of NASA and the U.S. military.

However, a number of steps still can be tried before Superbot independent and able to produce their own decisions. Creating artificial intelligence in robots is a matter of complex and challenging. Moreover the form of a robot that best represent the surrounding environment.

Shen, through an experiment in laboratoriumnya, has tried several ideas. Ideas include using digital hormone to stimulate and influence the mind and the sport of robots. The way to give instructions such as signal signal signal to the weather and change shape so that Superbot walk or roll. Shen and develop modules Superbot as stem cells with a robot that is able to bermetamorfosis different role. (Livescience.com / msnbc.com / Luc)

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