MIT echoes Big Hero 6 with microbot-like tech

Oct15

by Sindy Cator on October 15, 2015 at 11:06 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Kinetic Blocks, MIT Media Lab

The Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab has developed a way to use a 3D pin-based shape display to assemble structures out of building blocks. The Kinetic Blocks display is composed of computer-controlled pins that can move up and down in sync. It’s paired with a Microsoft Kinect to detect the location of blocks placed on it. The display can rotate blocks in place, move them, stack them and even follow construction commands to create structures with them. They remind me of the microbots in Disney’s Big Hero 6, which could be controlled with a wearable neurotransmitter to join…