United States Army Research Laboratory

Caption:Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. The new system involves large, usable structures built from an array of tiny identical subunits called voxels (the volumetric equivalent of a 2-D pixel). Credits:Courtesy of the researchers
Progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots
An MIT team has designed an “acoustic fabric,” woven with a fiber that is designed from a “piezoelectric” material that produces an electrical signal when bent or mechanically deformed, providing a means for the fabric to convert sound vibrations into electrical signals. Image: Greg Hren
A new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals
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