In recent years, BlueStem has been further developing a foundational formulation that was developed by our founder and Managing Director, called 'Reassembling Robotics'. This novel formulation allows robotic systems, mechanisms and machines to be reassembled in an adaptive manner for new task manoeuvres.
Using this framework, robots may be reassembled/transformed in real time to optimise specific tasks or to perform new tasks entirely. As such, robots being designed with these reassembling transformation considerations in mind would allow for more effective, efficient and adaptable robots to be built in the near future.
Some recently published research works are shown
here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-019-1039-z
here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574720000752
here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-021-01119-6
Some recent research works are shown here, here, here and here.