The vision of USD’s Modular Robotics Lab is to develop modular robots that a non-expert user can adapt to perform a wide range of tasks. The key idea behind our work is to break a robot’s functionality down into mechatronics components, i.e. modules, from which we can construct a large variety of robots. We currently focus on ways to increase the versatility and adaptability of modular robots while reducing their cost. In particular we focus on :
The USD Modular Robotics Lab ATRON team is the winner of this year's ICRA Contingency Challenge, we will link to pictures and videos from this page as they become available, for a sneak peek see a preliminary youtube video showing the ATRON scoring top points for the Tuesday challenge!
USD Modular Robotics Lab including the ODIN robot will participate in the play Robottens Anatomi at Odense Theater (buy tickets!), April and September 2009
USD Modular Robotics Lab hosted The Second International Conference on Robots and Communication 2009 (ROBOCOMM 2009). Robocomm 2009, 31/3-2009
Press
September 2010 Article in New Scientist on online adaptation in walking modular robots New Scientist
Marts 2009 Article on the Locomorph EU project in the magazine Ny Viden in Danish
22/07-2008 USD Modular Robotics Lab's Co-director, Kasper Stoy, was interviewed by Robots Podcast & Community. Robots Podcast's Interview
30/05-2008 An article in the Japanese magazine "ROBOT WATCH" described the ICRA2008's robot challenge in which our group participated. ROBOT WATCH's article
30/05-2008 BBC Radio covered the ICRA2008's robot challenge event in which our group participated. The transmission focuses on the autonomous robot's challenge, called: The Sandbox Event. BBC Radio's transmission
23/05-2008 The Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California wrote an article about the ICRA2008's robot challenge, where their group was the winner of the event. Some pictures of our robots can be found using the links embedded in the article. ISI's article
Newest video
Vacuubes is a set of modules that propagate vacuum across their interfaces in order to generate adhesive forces to form and hold structures. The idea of the project is to explore the feasibility of using vacuum as attachment mechanism for modular robots. Most of the parts of Vacuubes are 3D-printed.
