Modular Robot that reassembles when kicked like a ragdoll
You might have seen Sci-Fi fantasies or Big Buck movies where mean Cyborg gets back after being completely destroyed; reassembling itself when everyone thinks the robot is gone for good. Mark Yim, a professor of mechanical engineering Robotics Lab University of Pennsylvania has built a Modular walking robot named Ckbot (not as dramatized and larger than life like in the movies) that can reassemble itself after being kicked to pieces. Each of the modules behaves as a separate robot, with magnets and programmed computer chips. After being kicked the module communicate with each other via infrared port. The robot can also crawl like a serpent, which is kind of cute. But I still can’t get my head around how the computers in the modules coordinate and instruct to reassemble.
