The basic idea of the self-building structure is in a clever synergy between the building material — cuboctahedral frames they call voxels — and the two types of robots that assemble them.

Structure Core is available to preorder now, in both a self-enclosed version and a module designed to be embedded into another piece of electronics, like an AR headset or robot prototype.

Recently, the European Union funded the project PULSAR (Prototype of an Ultra Large Structure Assembly Robot) through the Space Robotic Technologies program within Horizon 2020. PULSAR aims to develop ...