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SMORES-EP is a swarm and modular robotic system designed and built at the University of Pennsylvania, and used by researchers at Penn and Cornell. SMORES stands for Self-Assembling MOdular Robot for Extreme Shapeshifting, and EP refers to the Electro-Permanent magnets the modules use to connect.
![Chao Liu 刘超](/authors/admin/avatar_hu72fe76d66c68b44e9f1e2196ce9f0a6e_341142_270x270_fill_q75_lanczos_center.jpg)
Chao Liu 刘超
Postdoctoral Associate
My research interests include manipulation and tactile sensing, swarm and modular robotics, soft robotics, parallel robotics, control and motion planning.
Publications
Self-assembly of modular robotic systems enables the construction of complex robotic configurations to adapt to different tasks. This …
Chao Liu 刘超, Qian Lin, Hyun Kim, Mark Yim
Chao Liu 刘超, Qian Lin, Hyun Kim, Mark Yim
Self-reconfigurable modular robots are usually composed of multiple modules with uniform docking interfaces that can be transformed …
Chao Liu 刘超, Michael Whitzer, Mark Yim
The PaintPot manufacturing process is a new way to create low-cost, low-profile, highly customizable potentiometers for position …
Tarik Tosun, Daniel Edgar, Chao Liu 刘超, Thulani Tsabedze, Mark Yim