Swiss researchers have created a metallic cube that can “walk” across a surface. Staff at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich crammed a series of inertia sensors and constantly-spinning rotors into a 15-centimeter cube, dubbed Cubli, that enable the contraption to move around on its own.
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Swiss researchers created a cube that can sit, jump, and walk
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Published December 21, 2013
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Today in terrifying robotics news, researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, in Switzerland, have built a cube. A robot cube. A robot cube that can jump, rotate, balance and walk on its own. Wait, what?
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