In Japan, robots are being developed that can repair themselves.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo taught this PR2 robot how to tighten screws on its own body. This is an important achievement in the field of robotics, especially for robots working in the field of robotics household to help out.
There is a worldwide research on systems that can repair themselves. There is even one yourself self-healing software, Now go a logical step further. The low-maintenance robots are on the rise, but without repair, it will probably not work.
The concept of self-repairing robot was presented at the Humanoids 2019 in Toronto. The next step is that the robots can not only repair themselves, but also that they expand with accessories.
For the repair, the robots were provided with their own blueprint in the form of the CAD data. But there is still a lack of knowledge about what has to be done. So the bots can not detect that a screw is loose. But he can tell a difference by comparison. He can also check all screws at certain times.
Since you can not get at all the screws and failures, robots need colleagues to help them. It gets more complicated if it is not a conventional screw, but an imbus, for example.
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