Truss-Climbing Robot Can Build Structures, Take Them Apart
Next time you need a new house, Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab is betting that robots might have a hand (or lack of hands) in helping you build it. Like other climbing bots we’ve seen before, their “autonomous truss-structure modifying robot” is capable of clambering around three-dimensional structures, but with a twist: The robot can add and remove bits and pieces as it goes.