Review of Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems

Modular self-reconfigurable robotic system has been presented for more than 20 years. We will review the development of the system in this article. There are many categories of the system. Each category is introduced in detail in this article, and typical examples of each categories will be presented. We also present the key technologies of the system.

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