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"Shape-shifting modular interactive device unveiled"
A prototype for an interactive mobile device, called Cubimorph, which can change shape on-demand will be presented this week at one of the leading international forums for robotics researchers, ICRA 2016, in Stockholm, Sweden [16-21 May].
May 17, 2016
Article "Researchers create Rubik's cube-like touchscreen display"
Imagine a smartphone made of building blocks.
by Andrew Dalton
May 17, 2016
https://youtu.be/jhutb0k1WDM
Cubimorph: designing modular interactive devices
Published on May 4, 2016
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Paper at ICRA 2016. Roudaut A., Krusteva D., McCoy M., Karnik A., Ramani K,, Subramanian S.
We introduce Cubimorph, a modular interactive device that accommodates touchscreens on each of the six
module faces, and that uses a hinge-mounted turntable mechanism to self-reconfigure in the user’s hand. Cubimorph
contributes toward the vision of programmable matter where interactive devices reconfigure in any shape that can be made
out of a chain of cubes in order to fit a myriad of functionalities, e.g. a mobile phone shifting into a console when
a user launches a game. We present a design rationale that exposes user requirements to consider when designing
homogeneous modular interactive devices. We present our Cubimorph mechanical design, three prototypes demonstrating
key aspects (turntable hinges, embedded touchscreens and miniaturization), and an adaptation of the probabilistic
roadmap algorithm for the reconfiguration.