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Autonomous AI Robot Creates a Shock-Absorbing Shape No Human Ever Could
An autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could. Learn what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and more. Within the confines of a lab in Boston University’s College of Engineering, a robot arm drops small, plastic objects into a box precisely pla
Boston University’s robot MAMA BEAR autonomously creates and tests energy-absorbing structures, recently achieving a record 75% efficiency, with applications ranging from shipping materials to military gear. The Process of Innovation To do this, the robot creates a small plastic structure with a 3D printer, records its shape and size, moves it to a flat metal surface—and then crushes it with a pressure equivalent to an adult Arabian horse standing on a quarter. We can reach a structure or goal that we wouldn’t have been able to achieve otherwise, because it would have been too expensive and time-consuming.” He has worked closely with MAMA BEAR since the experiments began in 2021, and gave the robot its ability to see—known as machine vision—and clean its own test plate.
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