In this episode we talk to Haruhisa Kurokawa, who is the head of the Distributed System Design Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He presents one the leading robots in the area of self-reconfigurable modular robotics, the M-TRAN III (Modular Transformer). Their robots can change shape to walk, slither or crawl and why not become the cup of coffee you so badly need?

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• Robots: Odor Source Localization -- 28 January, 2011
• Robots: Distributed Flight Array -- 13 August, 2010
• Robots: Controlled Flight of Insect-sized Robots -- 3 May, 2013
• Robots: The Future of Robot Companions -- 18 May, 2012
• Robots: Dynamic Systems -- 23 March, 2012