Shape changing robots are going to hitch a ride almost by accident to the reaches of space. We are going to integrate shape changing robots into satellites, space faring vehicles, rockets, and anything else we may launch into space. All the material that could dumped in space with every launch, or could be carried as extra payload and dumped in space we want to build out of shape changing robots. Any structures that we take with us like fuel tanks, girders, nuts, bolts, spent stages of rockets etc are all made compatible with shape changing robots for material that can be re-used. There is nothing as simple as erecting complex structures using shape changing robots.
Shape changing robots and how they are built is covered in the internal construction section.
Robotic cubes are built from six mechanical plates with petals that exten at a 45 degree angle as illustrated in figure 2. These petals engage into symmetrical mechanisms in a neighbouring cube. They can also be used to pick up other objects if they too have 45 degree slots cut into them as illustrated in figure 3. These objects could be tools, blank tilable plates or steel girders. Steel girders picked up in this manner can be joined together to make extremely quick automated structures such as the structure illustrated in figure 4.