Robot "tube worms" build something
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Very good points. They were vague about possible uses, generally mentioning shelters. Just guessing, but maybe te "tubes" would act as "ribs" for some sort of quonset hut?
Both the video clip and article are pretty coy about the structural strength of the finished "product" too. It's mentioned it stayed up several months before the researchers dissembled it, but that would seem to be just withstanding weather like wind or rain rather than someone using it.
It's also interesting that a unforeseen quirk in the programming meant the "tubes" the robots "spun" didn't either merge or grow as close as they thought they would. The researchers hadn't specifically planned on it, but the robots avoided getting closer to each other once a certain distance was reached; something along the lines as close as "X" and no closer. Makes you wonder if they staggered the "timing" could they get one robot to "spin" it's new "tube" to connect with a previously spun one.
That was pretty cool. Definitely makes for a more organic looking structure. Almost alien...
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