Large robotic collectives provide advantages suchas resilience to mechanical failure of single agents and in-creased capabilities for search and coverage based applica-tions. However, a lack of rapid and free-form manufacturingprocesses remains a barrier to high-volume fabrication ofmechanically heterogeneous robotic swarms. Self-folding laser-machined structures have the potential to enable heterogeneousrobotic swarms. As an initial step to realizing a functionalrobotic collective, we focus on the design a
Source: (PDF) Towards rapid mechanical customization of cm-scale self-folding agents