Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of beams and joints that rotate and twist, enabling astonishing volumetric transformations.
But as tasks become more complicated, so does the robot‘s design. Adding actuating beams to the robot’s truss may help it perform more motions or tasks, but it also exponentially increases control complexity. And while designers can manually group actuators into control networks for greater simplicity, this process is both tedious and labor intensive.
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