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Comments on TETWalker: Shape-Shifting Robot Swarm
A tetrahedral walker, or TETWalker robot, was demonstrated recently at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This bot is a prototype member of an autonomous nanotechnology swarm that can alter their shape to flow smoothly over rocky terrain, or combine (Read
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| "There are also the Foglets in Transmetropolitan, which are concious minds given control of a cloud of mullti-purpose nano-devices." (Matt 4/5/2005 2:15:41 PM) |
| "dont get it pictures should move!!!1
" (amy 2/8/2006 8:14:28 PM) |
| "Here's a TETWalker prototype demo:
(Bill Christensen 7/20/2007 3:45:11 PM) |
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