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Fractal Robot

Fractal robots are self-assembling robots made of interconnected cubes that can change shape and perform tasks. Each cube contains electronics and motors that allow it to move and connect to other cubes. The fractal structure means parts resemble the whole, enabling the robots to repair themselves by replacing damaged cubes. Potential applications include construction, emergency response, defense, space exploration, and medical procedures. While promising, the technology faces challenges in control software and high initial costs, but further development could revolutionize fields that rely on automation and shape-shifting machines.

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Fractal Robot

Fractal robots are self-assembling robots made of interconnected cubes that can change shape and perform tasks. Each cube contains electronics and motors that allow it to move and connect to other cubes. The fractal structure means parts resemble the whole, enabling the robots to repair themselves by replacing damaged cubes. Potential applications include construction, emergency response, defense, space exploration, and medical procedures. While promising, the technology faces challenges in control software and high initial costs, but further development could revolutionize fields that rely on automation and shape-shifting machines.

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FRACTAL ROBOTS

submitted by
Rituparna Halder
1AT07EC074

Under the guidance Of


Prof. Ravindra Kadambi

Atria Institute Of Technology


Date: 24th March, 2011 Dept of ECE
Contents

Introduction

Simple construction details

Self Repair Mechanism

Applications

Limitations

Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
The birth of every technology is the result of the quest for automation
of some form of human work.
The principle behind Fractal Robots is very simple.
You take some cubic bricks made of metals and plastics,
motorize them,
put some electronics inside them and
control them with a computer
You get machines that can change shape from one object to another
almost immediately
You can now build a home in a matter of minutes if you had enough
bricks and instruct the bricks to shuffle around and make a house!
It is exactly like kids playing with Lego bricks.
Fully automated
Fractal Robots are the hardware equivalent of computer software.
WHAT ARE FRACTALS

A fractal is anything which has a substantial measure of


exact or statistical self-similarity.
Wherever you look at any part of its body it will be similar
to the whole object.
FRACTAL ROBOTS
The robot can be animated around its joints in a uniform manner.
Such robots can be straight forward geometric patterns/images that
look more like natural structures such as plants.
This patented product however has a cubic structure.
Fractal Robots start at one size to which half size or double size
cubes can be attached
The smallest expected size is between
1000 and 10,000 atoms wide.
These cubes are embedded with computer
chips that control their movement.
SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
Has fewest possible moving
parts so that they can be mass
produced.
Built from metals and plastics
which are cheaply available in
industrialized nations.
Also ceramics and clays are
used which are environmentally
friendlier and more readily
available in developing nations.
The robotic cubes are
assembled from face plates
which have been manufactured
and bolted to a cubic frame.
Each of these face plates have electrical contact pads that allow power and
data signals to be routed from one robotic cube to another.
The plates also have 45 degree petals that push out of the surface to
engage the neighbouring face that allows one robotic cube to lock to its
neighbour.
SELF REPAIR MECHNAISM

Figure 1 Figure 2

Figure 3 Figure 4
APPLICATIONs
Bridge building: Shape changing robots are ideal for making all manners of
bridges from small to the very largest.
Fire fighting: need to enter a building through entrances that may be very small
machines themselves may be very large and yet they must get through and once
inside, they may have to support the building from collapse.
Defense technology: The machines can dodge incoming shells at 2 km
distance by opening a hole in any direction.
Earth Quake Applications: During earth quakes a multi-terrain vehicles with
walking abilities is required that can transform interchangeably into crawling
machines to get past obstacles and reach the buildings and structures that need to
be repaired.
Medical Applications: A fractal robot system with 1 mm cubes can squirt into the
human body through a 2 mm pin hole and rebuild itself inside the body into surgical
instruments and perform the operation without having to open up the patient
Space Exploration: Space is probably one of the best application areas for fractal
robots because of its cheapness, built in self repair and 100% automation
possibilities.
LIMITATIONS

Technology is still in infancy


Current cost is very high ($1000 per cube for the
1st generation of cubes, after which it will reduce
to $100 or so).
Needs very precise &
flexible controlling
software.
CONCLUSION
It may take about 4-5 years for this technology to be introduced and tried
out all over the world.
But once the first step is taken and its advantages well understood it will not
take much time for it to be used in our everyday life.
This technology has the potential to penetrate every field of human work like
construction, medicine, research and others.
Using Fractal Robots will help in saving economy;
time etc and they can be used even for the most
sensitive tasks.
Also the raw materials needed are cheap,
making it affordable for developing nations also.
This promises to revolutionize technology in a
way that has never been witnessed before.
REFERENCES

All the information about the matter has been collected


from the following sites:

http://www.stellar.demon.co.uk
http://www.fractal-bus.co.uk

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