…But can it dance?
The below video (which is agonizingly slow, even when they speed it up to 5x), shows a robot that can reassemble itself after being kicked apart into three separate pieces.
The narrators explain how the robot (which appears to be made of the same cubes that Wall-E creates out of Earth’s trash) first identifies its separated parts using cameras that send unique signals. Once two cameras make eyes with each other, the slow, robotic undulation process begins, and then the newly created piece seeks out the third. The robot can also “walk,” much the same way Nick Nolte can look sober.
Luckily, it takes well over five minutes to get its groove back, which means you’d have plenty of time to escape on your dirt bike.
(via Gizmodo)
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