The University of Pennsylvania created these modular robots that are able to recognize each other and assemble themselves into 1 larger robot. Once assembled, the larger robot is able to walk…theoretically. A video of the bot in action is available here.
1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth College run the first program in their new language, Basic. Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz had been trying to make computing more accessible to their undergraduate students. One problem was that available computing languages like Read more…