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ABSTRACT This session covers an overview
of this technology, the capability of
Fractal Robots is an emerging Fractal Robots, the role they can play
new service that promises to in shaping our future.
revolutionize every aspect of human
technology. Fractal robots are objects 1. INTRODUCTION
made from cubic bricks that can be
Fractal Robot is a science
controlled by a computer to change
that promises to revolutionize
shape and reconfigure themselves
technology in a way that has never
into objects of different shapes.
been witnessed before.
These cubic motorized bricks
The principle behind Fractal
can be programmed to move and
Robots is very simple. You take some
shuffle themselves to change shape to
cubic bricks made of metals and
make objects like a house potentially
plastics, motorize them, put some
in a few seconds. This technology has
electronics inside them and control
the potential to penetrate every field
them with a computer and you get
of human work like construction,
machines that can change shape from
medicine, research and others. Fractal
one object to another. Fractal Robots
robots can enable buildings to be
are the hardware equivalent of
built within a day, help perform
computer software.
sensitive medical operations and can
assist in laboratory experiments. This What are Fractals?
technology is called Digital Matter A fractal is anything
Control and is implemented here with which has a substantial measure of
a machine called robotic cubes and exact or statistical self-similarity.
the entire technology is called Fractal Wherever you look at any part of its
Robot Technology. Also Fractal body it will be similar to the whole
Robots have built-in self repair which object.
means they can continue without
human intervention. Fractal Robots
one size to which half size or double be built from metals, plastics and also
size cubes can be attached and to from ceramics and clays which are
computer control
A Fractal O. S uses a no of
features.
All active robotic cubes have a
limited microcontroller to perform
1. Transparent data
basic operations such as the
communication
communication and control of
2. Data compression at all
internal mechanism. The commands
levels
to control a Fractal Robot are all
3. Awareness of built in
commands for movement such as
self repair.
move left, right etc and hence the
computer program to control the A Fractal O. S converts fractally
robot is greatly simplified in that written code into machine commands
whatever software that is developed for movement. The data signals are
for a large scale robot, it also applies fed to a bus (fractal bus). Its internal
to the smaller scale with no design consists if ROM, RAM and
modifications to the command some counters.
structure.
2. Fractal Bus
The largest component of the
A Fractal bus permits Hardware
Fractal Robot system is the software.
and software to merge seamlessly
Because shape changing robots are
into one unified data structure. It
fractals, everything around the robot
helps in sending and receiving
such as tooling, operating system,
fractally controlled data.
software etc must be fractally
organized in order to take advantage
3. SELF REPAIR
of the fractal operation.
Figure 5
4. APPLICATIONS OF
FRACTAL ROBOTS
Figure 7
Bridge building
One of the biggest problems in terrain vehicle, making them totally
civil engineering is to get enough lethal to any passing war fighters,
bridges built as rapidly as possible for aircraft, tanks, and armoured
mass transit and rapid development personnel carriers; surviving shelling,
of an economy. Shape changing rockets and missiles.
robots are ideal for making all
manners of bridges from small to the Earth Quake Applications:
very largest.
Once a building is damaged by
The bridging technology earthquakes, the terrain inside (and
introduced here can be used to patch outside) the building is completely
up earthquake damaged bridges, and undefined. You need true multi-
they can also be used as a means for terrain vehicles with walking abilities
the shape changing robot to cross that can transform interchangeably
very rough terrain. The bridge into crawling machines to get past
assembly machine is built principally obstacles and reach the buildings and
from simple mass manufactured structures that need to be repaired
repeating cubes that move under from collapsing. Figure 9 and 10
computer control, and reshape into below show how a very large shape
different scaffolds in a matter of changing robot can enter a building
seconds. through a narrow window and rebuild
itself one on the other side.
Defense technology:
5. CONCLUSION