Talk:Self-reconfiguring modular robot

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This is an area of considerable note. Reference: Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future, by Yim, Shen, Salemi, Rus, Moll, Lipson, Klavins & Chirikjian, published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine March 2007.

Molecubes

There was another version of molecubes that isnt self reconfigurable but it is reconfigurable and modular. It is on you tube some where, should that be mentioned under the molecubes section (eg "a succesor/precursor to this design is not".....)?Dalek9 (talk) 12:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ANAT Robot added 9/30/09

Besides the advertising, is this even in the right place? It might be *manually* reconfigurable, but this article is distinctly supposed to only be about *self* reconfigurable devices. Also, despite being a modularized mechanism, it's not modular in the same context as the type of technology being presented and referred to in this article. I suggest moving it to a more appropriate and relevant article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.242.31 (talk) 18:19, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ANAT Robot

The robot is actually sold and used in industry. It is completely able to self reconfigure depeding on artifical intelligence and a second shiftable axis added to the modules. This allows factories to switch good production or production methods without chainging machinery, however in actual industry, the price of the robot will significantly increase, and this is not usually not looked well upon, as factoies rarely switch good producion currently, as it is a completely new concept. The robots displayed can self-reconfigure if needed, however, i cannot possibly see how this article post can be seen as an advertisiement, besides the fact that its existance and uses are mentionned. The post fits just fine in this article, I am removing your warning, but if you want to take he time to make a page just for modular robots, i will be more then happy to add it there too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.57.98.246 (talk) 22:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Response to: ANAT Robot, its author, Wikipedia community, and re. removal of the dispute

1. The dispute seems to have been arbitrarily removed without proper review, a vote, expert input, or other form I desired and intended. How do I post a call to vote on the removal of a section of an ANAT Robot, as opposed to the entire article in general (e.g., speedy delete), that stays there for at least a month or so? That's basically what I was trying to do here. 2. Does the ANAT Robot possess the same attributes as the other forms of technological concepts involved in this article? In other words, does the scientific and technological community that "coined" or uses the phrase of the title of this article consider the ANAT Robot to fit into that same category? For example, is it scalable? 3. In the past there were articles on "Self Reconfigurable", "Modular Robotics", and "Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics." The were all merged and eventually came to be referred as "Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics" (this article). If you want to call for the re-separation of those articles I'll support you on both that as well as placing a description of the ANAT Robot in the Modular Robotics article.