New Atlas

MIT's autonomous block bots jump, roll and stack themselves

Out of all the cool-looking forms that robots can take – humanoid, dogs, fish, crocodiles, snakes, birds, or disembodied arms – a cube seems like a pretty boring choice. But MIT’s new take on the ...
ExtremeTech

MIT's M-Block Robots Roll, Jump, and Flip to Form Structures

MIT researchers have created a fleet of tiny robotic cubes that can move around and interact with each other autonomously. An individual "M-Block" robot is simple and not very useful, but if you bring ...
The Next Web

MIT’s new robot blocks self-assemble just like a transformer

When we watched the first Transformers movie, most of us wanted our toasters and washing machines to turn into cool robots. Now, MIT has developed a set of self-assembling robot blocks that can ...
EDN

MIT researchers create self-assembling robots using an astonishingly simple scheme

Using M-blocks, MIT researchers have created a robotic technology that features cubes with no external moving parts, yet are fully capable of propelling themselves forward, jumping atop one another, ...
Futurism

Watch MIT’s Robot Cubes Self-Assemble Into Structures

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created autonomous robot cubes that can jump, spin, and assemble Minecraft-like structures on their own. One ...
Hackaday

M-blocks

While robots have been making our lives easier and our assembly lines more efficient for over half a century now, we haven’t quite cracked a Jetsons-like general purpose robot yet. Sure, Boston ...