Touchable user interface using self movable robotic modules
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Jun 5, 2001
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Oct 16, 1998
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A touchable user interface including multiple robotic modules that can 'walk' over each other to allow reconfiguration of the interface. Each module preferably includes motive devices as well as connective devices communication between the modules and a control unit that send commands to the interface, thereby enabling its reconfiguration. Depending on the needs of the user/builder, the interface can be an input interface, or both. The interface can also act as robotic appendage/manipulator capable of engaging and manipulating a wide variety of objects and/or substances by engulfing such objects and/or substances in 'pseudopods' and structural voids which the modules are moved by instructions from the control unit.
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