Demo Abstract: Claytronics---highly scalable communications, sensing, and actuation networks.

@inproceedings{aksak-sensys06,
  author = {Pillai, Padmanabhan and Campbell, Jason D.},
  title = {Demo Abstract: Sensing and Reproducing the Shapes of 3D
     Objects Using Claytronics},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4rd international conference on
     Embedded networked sensor systems (SenSys)},
  venue = {International conference on Embedded networked sensor
     systems (SenSys)},
  year = {2006},
  month = {October},
  keywords = {Demos},
}

@inproceedings{aksak-sensys05,
  author = {Aksak, Burak and Bhat, Preethi Srinivas and Campbell,
     Jason D. and De~Rosa, Michael and Funiak, Stanislav and Gibbons,
     Phillip B. and Goldstein, Seth Copen and Guestrin, Carlos and
     Gupta, Ashish and Helfrich, Casey and Hoburg, James F. and Kirby,
     Brian and Kuffner, James and Lee, Peter and Mowry, Todd C. and
     Pillai, Padmanabhan and Ravichandran, Ramprasad and Rister,
     Benjamin D. and Seshan, Srinivasan and Sitti, Metin and Yu,
     Haifeng},
  title = {Demo Abstract: Claytronics---highly scalable
     communications, sensing, and actuation networks.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on
     Embedded networked sensor systems (SenSys)},
  venue = {International conference on Embedded networked sensor
     systems (SenSys)},
  year = {2005},
  pages = {299},
  url = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/papers/aksak-sensys05.pdf},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1098918.1098964},
  keywords = {Demos},
  abstract = {We propose a demonstration of extremely scalable modular
     robotics algorithms developed as part of the Claytronics Project
     (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/), as well as a
     demonstration of proof-of-concept prototypes. Our effort
     envisions multi-million-module robot ensembles able to morph into
     three-dimensional scenes, eventually with sufficient fidelity so
     as to convince a human observer the scenes are real. Although
     this work is potentially revolutionary in the sense that it holds
     out the possibility of radically altering the relationship
     between computation, humans, and the physical world, many of the
     research questions involved are similar in flavor to more
     mainstream systems research, albeit larger in scale. For
     instance, as in sensor networks, each robot will incorporate
     sensing, computation, and communications components. However,
     unlike most sensor networks each robot will also include
     mechanisms for actuation and motion. Many of the key challenges
     in this project involve coordination and communication of sensing
     and actuation across such large ensembles of independent units.},
}