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SquishBot is a program to develop a new class of soft, shape-changing robot. The goal is to design systems that can transform themselves from hard to soft and from soft to hard, upon command. Another goal is to create systems that change their critical dimensions by large amounts, as much as 10x. Such robots will be like soft animals that can squeeze themselves through small openings and into tight places. / n b: n+ G& @- D) b1 F
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SquishBot是一个发展新型的“软体可变形机器人”的计划。目的是设计一种能够根据指令,由软到硬,又由硬到软的改变自身形态的系统。另一个目的是创造一个可以大幅度改变自身关键尺寸(达10倍)的系统。这类机器人会像软体动物一样压扁自己来通过小开口和进入狭小的空间。
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The Boston Dynamics-lead team includes researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specialize in novel materials and deformable structures. The program leverages MIT's previous work developing slug robots and Boston Dynamics' work on robots that crawl, walk and climb. SquishBot is funded by the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA as part of the ChemBot program.
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波士顿动力领导小组,包括麻省理工学院的材料专家和变形结构专家。这个项目综合(leverage)了麻省理工学院开发蛞蝓机器人的工作和波士顿动力的爬行、行走、攀爬机器人的工作。SquishBot作为ChemBot项目的一部分,得到到防御远景研究规划局(DARPA)国防科学办公室的资助。
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注:ChemBot是美国iRobot公司研发出一款外形恐怖的化学机器人,ChemBot整体颠覆了机器人的传统形象。ChemBot整体外形就像一个不规则的球,靠改变其外形进行移动。其设计过程中利用了“堵塞”原理,通过增加液体密度使液体变为固体状态的物理过程。/ c% { b# ~. F! x: v: k7 y+ G
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