Shapeshifting Roboats (IMAGE)
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MIT's fleet of robotic boats has been updated with new capabilities to 'shapeshift,' by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into different configurations to form various floating platforms in the canals of Amsterdam. In experiments in a pool, the boats rearranged themselves from a connected straight line into an 'L' (shown here) and other shapes.
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