Robot changes the mobile phone lamp, MIT plays a new height.

Lei Feng network says MIT can be called a real creation space, and there are always a variety of bright things that are created. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's media lab has developed a prototype robot snake named LineFORM. This robot is as flexible as a snake. Even you can't see that it has any bones. It can change many different structures at any time, and can be turned into mobile phones, table lamps and exoskeletons. The lab said that the development of this robot is to change our way of life, so that robots can replace our mobile phones, table lamps and a series of mobile devices.

In a demonstration video released by the lab, the robot was initially worn as a bracelet. When a telephone came in, the robot immediately became the shape of the phone. The demonstrator even used it as a touch-screen phone to make a phone call on it.

LineFORM also has the potential to act as a cable. When it is given a bulb, it can supply energy to the bulb by connecting the power supply. At the same time, it will become a bracket immediately, just like a desk lamp. In addition, turning its body can change the brightness of the bulb. It can also transmit files, and when connected to the computer, when it chooses to transfer files on the computer, it will immediately shake the body, like the continuous transmission of energy.

Finally, it can also become your fitness coach. If you don't know how to exercise, you can let it teach you if you don't exercise normally. When the robot is wrapped around your arms as an exoskeleton, the robot will carry your arm automatically to achieve the flexibility of exercising and arms.

Of course, although Massachusetts Institute of Technology's media lab has made the prototype of LineFORM, there are still some things like phone calls or brain cavities. Sean Follmer, head of the lab, said they felt that the next generation of mobile devices should be flexible and changeable.

Xiaobian is also amazed at the idea of opening the brain hole. Foreign children really play it. Whether or not these functions can be realized, Xiaobian consulted many people in the industry, and found that your opinions were difficult to integrate.

Affirmative Party: This is not difficult.

Affirmative Fang A: "serpentine robots are linked by steering gear. It is not hard to be sincere, but mainly the steering gear. For example, this phone call, you think it is just part of what we see (lower computer), and another part (upper computer). The upper computer receives a phone call and learns that it is a telephone entry, which controls the steering gear of the lower computer, and turns the steering wheel into a telephone. It's not difficult. "

Affirmative party B: "multi degree of freedom control should not be too difficult technology. Perhaps the structural design is ingenious, but there must be interaction. Either people control or sensor triggers. Just add a 4G module to the phone, and add mic and receiver. Of course, the board of Nokia is very small. If I regard this as a difficult point, I feel a little bit more. "

Affirmative side C: "this exoskeleton is still difficult to achieve at present, because each person's body is not the same, the sensor accuracy is very high, the body, the steering gear and algorithm, computing power are very high. If the caller deformed those, changing the desk lamp is relatively simple. Because the change is not big, the algorithm is simple and the scene is single. Because calls can be seen as an instruction, do the corresponding movements, change into different shapes, cooperate with the relevant steering gear.

Negative side: it is impossible to achieve those functions.

Opposition D: "too little information. At present, I can not judge the principle of the robot. But I know that good use of genetic algorithm and reinforcement learning can enable robots to change their shape in different environments. In video, especially after looking at the structural video behind, it will be found that the structure is the combination of steering gear, and the way of deformation should be realized by genetic algorithm. But to achieve those functions, the brain hole is too big. Moreover, the genetic algorithm is not so fast... So the conclusion is that I go back to earth, MIT is all Martians. "

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