Boulder (USA), 12 February 2011

Cubelets is a robot construction kit. By combining sensor, logic and actuator blocks, young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behavior. Cubelets are developed by Modular Robotics. Ask4Me Group was responsible for the design, mechanics, prototyping and is currently working on the production set up.

The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light, sound, and temperature, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and watch the behavior emerge like with a flock of birds or a swarm of bees.