Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves

As a roboticist,
I get asked a lot of questions.

"When we will they start
serving me breakfast?"

So I thought the future of robotics
would be looking more like us.

I thought they would look like me,

so that I built eyes
that would simulate my eyes,

I built fingers that are dextrous enough
to serve me baseballs.

Classical robots like this are built

and can function based on
the fixed number of joints and actuators,

and this means their
functionality and shape

are already fixed at the moment
of their conception.

So even though this arm
has really nice throw,

to even hit the tripod at the end,

it's not meant for cooking you
breakfast per se.

It's not really suited for scrambled eggs.

So this was when I was hit
by a new vision of future robotics:

the transformers.

They drive, they run, they fly

all depending on the ever-changing
new environment and task at hand.

To make this a reality,

you really have to rethink
how robots are designed.

So imagine a robotic module
in a polygon shape

and using that simple polygon shape
to reconstruct multiple different forms

to create a new form of robot
for different tasks.