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Talking Robots: Haruhisa Kurokawa - Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots

Author
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
Published
Fri 03 Aug 2007
Episode Link
http://lis2.epfl.ch/resources/podcast/mp3/TalkingRobots-HaruhisaKurokawa.mp3

In this episode we talk to Haruhisa Kurokawa, who is the head of the Distributed System Design Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He presents one the leading robots in the area of self-reconfigurable modular robotics, the M-TRAN III (Modular Transformer). Their robots can change shape to walk, slither or crawl and why not become the cup of coffee you so badly need?

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