Catoms: Moving robots without moving parts

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1730-1731

  Kirby, Brian ^a   Campbell, Jason ^a,b   Aksak, Burak ^a   Pillai, Padmanabhan ^b   Hoburg, James ^a   Mowry, Todd ^a,b   Goldstein, Seth Copen ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D LITHOGRAPHIC PROCESSING; CLAYTRONICS; MANUFACTURABILITY; ROBOT PROTOTYPES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MACHINE DESIGN; MOTION PLANNING; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 29344473137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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