MIT's tiny "superhero" robot dresses for the job at hand

Robots are becoming more common as

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they move out of factories and into everyday life, but due to their fixed structures, they only have a limited range of things that each can do. A robotic vacuum cleaner can pick up pet hair, but it can't flip burgers. A robotic burger flipper can make a cheeseburger, but it can't deliver a package.

To extend the capabilities of individual robots, the CSAIL team took a page out of the notebook of the fictional inventor Tony Stark, who can swap out his Iron Man armors to suit whatever villain he's fighting that day. Like Iron Man, CSAIL's small-scale "superhero" robot uses a series of exoskeletons to fit the task at hand, though without the billionaire wisecracks.

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