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Origami-Inspired ‘Transformer Bots’ Revolutionize Space Travel With Shape-Shifting Capabilities‌ ‌

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August 27, 2024 at 5:39 am
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<p>The team was able to move the cubes into more than 1,000 shapes using only three active motors. JIE YIN, NC STATE UNIVERSITY VIA SWNS.</p>
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<p>CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — New shape-shifting ‘Transformer bots’ have been inspired by origami.</p>
<p>The versatile robots could transform space travel, say scientists.</p>
<p>Taking inspiration from the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, American engineers discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations – using just three active motors.</p>
<p>They say their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, could pave the way for shape-shifting artificial systems that can take on multiple functions and even carry a load, such as versatile robotic structures used in space.</p>
<p>“The question we’re asking is how to achieve several versatile shapes with the fewest number of actuators powering the shapeshifting,” said Professor Jie Yin, a corresponding author.</p>
<p>“Here we use a hierarchical concept observed in nature – like layered muscle fibers – but with plastic cubes to create a transforming robot.”</p>
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The transformer bots can make shapes such as tunnel-like structures, bridge-like structures, and even multi-story architectures. LA MM VIA PEXELS.

The North Carolina State University research team put together hollow, plastic cubes using a 3D printer.

They assembled 36 of them with rotating hinges; some hinges were fixed with metal pins, while others were activated wirelessly with a motor.

The team was able to move the cubes into more than 1,000 shapes using only three active motors.

The shapes included tunnel-like structures, bridge-like structures, and even multi-story architectures.

The untethered transformer bots can move forward, backward, and sideways – without feet – merely by controlling the ways the structure’s shape changes.

The bots can also transform relatively quickly from flat, or fully open, to a box-like larger cube, or fully closed.

The untethered transformer bots can move forward, backward, and sideways – without feet – merely by controlling the ways the structure’s shape changes. MIGUEL Á. PADRIÑÁN VIA PEXELS.

The bots also can carry a load of about three times their weight, according to the research team.

And they are attempting to make the transformer bots even better.

“We want to make a more robust structure that can bear larger loads,” said Dr. Yanbin Li, a co-author.

“If we want a car shape, for example, how do we design the first structure that can transform into a car shape?

“We also want to test our structures with real-world applications like space robots,” he added.

Co-first author Dr. Antonio Di Lallo said: “We think these can be used as deployable, configurable space robots and habitats.

“It’s modular, so you can send it to space flat and assemble it as a shelter or as a habitat, and then disassemble it.”

Yin added: “For users, it needs to be easy to assemble and to control.”

 

     

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