Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System (WORMS) refers to an architecture where a robotic mobility capability to access extreme lunar terrain emerges from the swarm-like integration of …

Mar 14, 2023 · The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility developed by MIT’s …

Mar 29, 2022 · WORMS is a modular architecture where the robotic mobility capability to access extreme lunar terrain emerges from the swarm-like integration of a small (“oligomeric”) set of …

Aug 23, 2023 · An MIT team has produced an atlas of how most cells, and the circuits they take part in, encode a worm's actions. The atlas reveals the underlying “logic” of how an animal …

Dec 14, 2022 · WORMS shown here on a rendering of a future lunar settlement. An interdisciplinary MIT team received the “Best Technical Paper” award at the 2022 NASA BIG …

Jan 21, 2025 · MIT Associate Professor Steven Flavell uses the worm C. elegans as a model to study behaviors such as feeding and navigation, in hopes of shedding light on how these …

Aug 23, 2023 · MIT researchers model and create an atlas for how neurons of the worm C. elegans encode its behaviors, make findings available on their “WormWideWeb.”

The MIT WORMS team seeks to explore the applications of modular robotics to space exploration. The team’s reconfigurable robot was built as a part of NASA’s BIG Idea …

OpenWorm is an open source project dedicated to creating a virtual C. elegans nematode in a computer.

MIT engineers design a mix-and-match kit for building lunar exploration robots called WORMS (Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System). WORMS aims to prevent a “zoo of machines” …