Self-Transforming Robot Takes Us a Step Closer to Actual Transformers
Roboticists obviously have a long way to go before the sci-fi vision of Transformers are realised, but this research is a positive step in that direction.
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Roboticists obviously have a long way to go before the sci-fi vision of Transformers are realised, but this research is a positive step in that direction.
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