Fractal Robots Essay

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1 Introduction Most of us would have seen the film TERMINATOR -2, the villain of the film is a robot called T900 (Arnold being the hero –T800) which is made of material which they call “liquid metal”. The T900 could change its own shape, it could use its hand as a sword or as a key or as a hook as needed. The T900 could squeeze its own body through small holes or cracks. It could also self-repair if damaged. T900 discussed above was in film, but is that possible in real life . . . ? Is it possible to have a robot which could change its own shape . . . ? Is it possible for a robot to self repair when damaged? The answer is yes. We call this kind of robots “fractal robots”. The birth of every technology is the result of the quest for automation of some form of human work. This has led to many inventions that have made life easier for us. Fractal Robot is a science that promises to revolutionize technology in a way that has never been witnessed before. The principle behind Fractal Robots is very simple. You take some cubic bricks made of metals and plastics, motorize them, put some electronics inside them and control them with a computer and you get machines that can change shape from one object to another. Almost immediately, you can now build a home in a matter of minutes if you had enough bricks and instruct the bricks to shuffle around and make a house! It is exactly like kids playing with Lego bricks and making a toy hose or a toy bridge by snapping together Lego bricks-except now we are using computer and all the work is done under total computer control. No manual intervention is required. Fractal Robots are the hardware equivalent of computer software. 1.1What are Fractals? A fractal is anything that has a substantial measure of exact or statistical self-similarity. Wherever

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