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These modular robots self-assemble to make and move furniture

Roombots are modular robots made by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) that can self-assemble to make, move and enhance furniture.

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  1. oO0Xenos0Oo

    May 19, 2020 at 1:27 pm

    Make them smaller and put screen technology on them instead of lights. They will be able to form a display of any size at any place.

  2. alex3261

    May 19, 2020 at 1:34 pm

    0:40. You highlighted one of the major weaknesses of the robots and of the AI pdriven devices: the power supply. As long as they would need batteries, their production and their replacement, there is no autonomous system that is viable. At one point, not very far, they will collect dust in a corner.
    Not to mention that they are ugly.

  3. J Y

    May 19, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    This is sick

  4. henrycwcw

    May 19, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    This is so futuristic damn. Cant wait to see it in action over the next 10-20 years.

  5. Top Ten Gadgets for Pros

    May 19, 2020 at 3:12 pm

    Me: There just bigger nano bots from big hero-Jesse: no they’re roombots.

  6. Vaskir

    May 19, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    Terminators made out of modular bots… sigh

  7. Scotti Pimpin

    May 19, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    So Cubix. Sick

  8. Motasem M

    May 19, 2020 at 4:36 pm

    Getting big hero 6 vibes

  9. Michael Boys

    May 19, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    These look amazing!!!! I dread to think how much they would cost though.

  10. PurpleTape

    May 19, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    Sitting on that chair would not be comfortable in the slightest

  11. Cross

    May 19, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    What is that? A chair for ants?

  12. Arachnicution

    May 19, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    So…they make slow robots for furniture? If only people used thier ingenuity for something useful. I assume they couldn’t begin to comprehend nanorobots or robotic prosthetics so they just chose novelty furniture bots.

  13. kingrando

    May 19, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    Wow… imagine these at nano size

  14. kingrando

    May 19, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    If I had modular robots, I would be creating a large scale transforming Optimus Prime for reals.

  15. zi jun luo

    May 19, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    CUBIX robots for everyone.

  16. Kevin Gutierrez

    May 19, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    It reminded me of Big Hero 6 right away!

  17. sherri moquin

    May 19, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    Big hero 6

  18. sherri moquin

    May 19, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    I would like to know the price of those moduler robots

  19. Caden Churchill

    May 19, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    Those are amazing! 100% would use these to just make something boring like a box ????

  20. Unsatisfied Woman

    May 19, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    i’m not very funny, dude ✅ ???? ???? ????

  21. Reg3e

    May 19, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    0:02
    😀

  22. Obi-Wan Kenobi

    May 19, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Big hero 6 belike

  23. Aefzhe Valai

    May 19, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    Big hero 6

  24. Stratos

    May 19, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    pretty sure I have seen something like this like 8 years ago…

    • Chris Locke

      May 21, 2020 at 2:13 pm

      Right, and never again since, cuz its useless and silly

  25. Lee cardio

    May 19, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    can’t afford a bigger apartment
    but these robots which will be expensive AF?

  26. Wings of Destruction

    May 20, 2020 at 4:30 am

    This honestly reminds me of those nano bots from that Disney movie big hero 6

  27. Paul Kjoss

    May 20, 2020 at 7:48 am

    I’m sure there is a better use for these things than furniture

  28. Kenneth Blocher

    May 20, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    Why don’t you ask Lord Saladin, see how well that went for the Iron Lords?

  29. fukinshin

    May 20, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    Incredibly impractical

  30. John Gyver

    May 20, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    Nice, but I wish you had shown us how those modules are controlled.
    Are all those shapes prerecorded, then “played” back to assemble something? How easy (or not) it is to create a new shape that I want?

  31. Roshan Baig

    May 20, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    So freaking cool

  32. Chris Locke

    May 21, 2020 at 2:12 pm

    Lame and useless, FAIL!

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