The electromagnetic bot blocks could be handy for building in those tight quarters aboard spacecraft.
to create larger, new forms. But to put these cubes in motion, Nisser and his team had to design software so that would allow users to manipulate them into whatever shape they see fit. The simulation allows users to control up to a thousand ElectroVoxels at a time, or choose from a series of predefined motions to create reconfigurations.
“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, where you can do cool things collectively with lots of little spacecraft or little robotic systems,” Manchester explains.
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