Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?

Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT wants to make it happen. She’s got a paper out with an open-source inchworm robot designed to assemble structures from voxels– and what is a voxel but a giant, LEGO-esque brick? There’s a demo video below, and it’s easier to understand the motion of this thing when you see it in action.