roBlocks is a coming new toy robotic system developed in CMU. Programming them seems to be simple - connect the right cubes together… They have sensors, actuators, operators (which do math..) and utility blocks (including a ‘comm’ block, which I guess means it communicates to a computer…)

I emailed them for more details, which I’ll post asap. In the meanwhile, I wonder if anyone wants to make a multi-NXT version… Maybe a community-organized project to define standard dimensions, connection scheme and inter-NXT BT/RS485 protocol. Anyone interested?

Update: from a paper published here I found this quote:

We plan to build a programming environment for more sophisticated programmers who wish to modify the behaviors that are built into the blocks. This would make our development cycle easier, but more importantly it would enable roBlocks users to take the next step toward programming distributed robotics algorithms.