Mobile phones change the phone, MIT play a new height

Lei Feng Reuters MIT can be regarded as the real creation of passenger space, there are always a variety of things to create a bright spot. Massachusetts Institute of Technology media lab developed a new machine called LineFORM snake robot prototype, the snake like flexible, even you can't see it any bones, countless different structures can be changed at any time, can be turned into a mobile phone, desk lamp and exoskeleton etc.. The laboratory said that the development of this robot is to change our way of life, so that the robot instead of our mobile phones, table lamps and a series of mobile devices.

In a demo video released in the laboratory, the robot began to be worn as a bracelet, when a call comes in, the phone immediately into the shape of the robot, demonstrators even think of it as a touch screen mobile phone call in the above presentation.

LineFORM has the potential to act as a cable. When given a light bulb, it can supply power to the bulb by connecting the power supply, and at the same time it turns into a bracket, just like a lamp. In addition, the rotation of the body can change the brightness of the bulb. It can also transfer files, connected to the computer, when the file on the computer to select the file, it will immediately shake the body, such as the continuous transmission of energy.

Finally, it can become your fitness coach, usually do not exercise if you do not know how to exercise, let it teach you. When the robot is wrapped around the outside of your arm, the robot will automatically take your arm to move, so as to achieve the effect of physical exercise and flexible arm.

Of course, although the Massachusetts Institute of Technology media lab made a prototype of LineFORM, but some things, such as cell phone call or a hole in the brain. Sean, head of the lab, said that they felt that the next generation of mobile devices should be flexible and Follmer.

For such a big hole in the mind of the idea, Xiao Bian is also amazing, foreign children really play. And whether these functions can be achieved, the small series after consulting a number of people in the industry, we found that it is difficult to unify the views.

Affirmation: This is not difficult

A: side of the snake robot, are linked with the steering wheel, really not very difficult, mainly the steering force. For example, this phone call, you think it is only a part of what we see (lower computer), and another part (host computer). The host computer receives a telephone, that is a call to enter, for the lower machine steering gear control, steering gear turns into a telephone...... This is not hard. "

Affirmative B: "multi degree of freedom control should not be too difficult technology! Perhaps the structural design is very clever, but there must be a good interaction! Either control or trigger sensor, the phone only need to add a 4G module is good, of course mic and the receiver, straight machine circuit board of Nokia is very small, remove the plug into the line. If this is a difficult point, I feel a little more. "

Certainly C: "the exoskeleton is still more difficult to achieve, because each person's body is not the same, very high precision of sensor close, on the steering gear and algorithm, computing ability are very demanding. If the caller is deformed, change the table lamp, relatively simple too much. Because of little change, the algorithm is very simple, single scene. Because the call can be seen as an instruction to do the corresponding changes in the action, into a different shape, good cooperation with the relevant steering gear on the line. "

Negative side: impossible to achieve those functions

Opposition party D: too little information, at present I can not judge the principle of the robot to achieve. But I know that genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning with good words, is to allow the robot to change their bodies in different environments. Look at the video in particular, look at the back of the structure of the video will find the structure is the combination of steering gear, the way the deformation should be achieved through genetic algorithms. But to do that, the hole is too big. Moreover, the genetic algorithm is not so fast, so the conclusion is that I still go back to the earth, MIT is a martian. "

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