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Australian Researchers Developing Shape-Shifting Robots?

by Darren Murph on June 9, 2008 at 08:10 AM


There's no shame in admitting that shape-shifting creatures are a touch frightening, but we'll go ahead and warn you -- those spooked by petite bots will be utterly terrified by this. The SkinForm Project has arisen from the University of Technology Sydney, and while there aren't any elaborate details available just yet, it's described as an "intelligent pneumatic structure that transforms dynamically in response to socio-physical context." In other words, it's some sort of shape-shifting, chameleon-like robo-creature.

Additionally, it seems to utilize a plethora of sensors and rely on a good bit of software programing in order to become the transforming architecture that it is. If all goes as planned, the initiative will be completed on June 12th, but you can take a look at a number of in-progress videos right down there in the read link below.

Tags: architecture, art, Australia, breaking news, BreakingNews, design, pneumatic, project, robots, sensor, sensors, SkinForm, UTS

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