Talking Robots: Haruhisa Kurokawa - Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots

Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence - A podcast by Laboratory of Intelligent Systems

In this episode we talk to Haruhisa Kurokawa, who is the head of the Distributed System Design Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He presents one the leading robots in the area of self-reconfigurable modular robotics, the M-TRAN III (Modular Transformer). Their robots can change shape to walk, slither or crawl and why not become the cup of coffee you so badly need?