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01.01.1970 //Robots construct volumetric models.
Intel wants to verify, can millions of small robots work together above the creation of coffee cup or model of truck. Laboratory Intel in Pittssburge together with Carnegie -Mellonskim by university (CMU) demonstrated at conference Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco the technological concept by the name "dynamic physical rendering", which in the course of time can lead to the creation of the materials, which change their form. [ it is filtered ] sufficient to exert necessary stress and to neglect program, and the flat sheet of material is converted into the three-dimensional model of automobile. We change the parameters, and it is transformed into the cube. Dynamic physical rendering was borne in the course of project Claytronics, headed by professor CMU Setom by Goldstein. "instead of examining of 3d- model in the system SAPR, it is possible to gather physical model directly on the table, it explained one of the leaders of project, ram Of pillay (Babu Pillai). - material will change its form under control of software ". Focus in the fact that this material is not continuous sheet, but is comprised of millions of separate silicic balls with the electronic actuating mechanisms - capacitors or the electromagnets. If we apply potential to the different actuating mechanisms, then the different sections of balls will be attracted or repulsed from the analogous points of other balls. The coordinated displacement of balls leads to the fact that the form changes. This intellectual material thus far there does not exist, but Intel created the prototypes of the components of its components. One of them - millimeter balls. First from the silicic plate is cut out the asterisk with many rays, which then displaces into the ball. Group demonstrated, as several actuating mechanisms can move objects. In one demonstration two cylinders, covered with the rows of electromagnets and not having moving parts, rolled themselves over the surface under the action of the attracting forces and repulsion. Thus far balls and actuating mechanisms are made separately, but in the future it will be possible to create them via standard silicic process, asserts Pillay. Under the layer with the actuating mechanisms is located the layer of silicon, while under it - the body, which forms spherical form. If the asterisks, cut out from this plate, are rolled up, then actuating mechanisms will prove to be on the external surface of sphere as armor in Colorado beetle. The acting prototypes of material can be finished years through five, assures Pillay. However, this is the simplest part of the equation. It can seem that to create software, which controls motion of millions of balls, is much more difficult. How to program the joint operation of 10 millions it is main? Actually, this of thousands of robots, forcedly moving relative to each other. The solution can become the development of the programs, in which each step is not compulsorily planned previously. This was demonstrated by the program- imitator, where 40 thousand robots, represented by bright points on the screen, moved, trying to solve the only task: to reduce distance to other robots. In this case the computer establishes the external boundary of the regioies, in which the robots can "tusovat'sya". In the course of imitation the robots were grouped into five squares. Through several minutes of fuss and crush in the squares began to be examined the letters: I-n-t-e- l. But even if it will be possible to solve this problem, another looms after it: how to ensure that balls would coordinate their actions in the three-dimensional space? Above the project work approximately 20 people. Laboratory in Pittsburgh - one of those that Intel opened with the prestige universities. For example, the company has laboratories in Berkeley and Cambridge. Carnegie- mellon - one of the main things is center studies in the region of robots.