Theory must be complemented with experiment and targeted to real world applications to fully achieve this goal. The Mobile Robot Laboratory's charter is to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems. In addition, it is the goal of this laboratory to facilitate technology transfer of its research results to yield solutions to real world problems for a wide range of application domains. The Harvard Robotics Laboratory was founded in 1983 by Professor Roger Brockett. Our current research projects include computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, motion control and VLSI systems.
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Here can be found some interesting research on metamorphic robots. A Metamorphic Robotic System is a collection of independently controlled mechatronic modules, each of which has the ability to connect, disconnect and climb over adjacent modules. Each module allows power and information to flow through itsef and to it's neighbors. A change in manipulator morphology results from the locomotion of each module over it's neighbors. Thus a metamorphic system has the ability to dynamically reconfigure.