Claytronics, Cars, and Princess Leia?
Like any research project at CMU Computer Science, the CMU-Intel Claytronics Project publishes lots of papers in research conferences and journals. The project has also gotten more than its fair share of attention in the popular press as well as various blogs and websites. (See the news links on the project’s web page for some examples.)
But nothing has tickled me more than seeing Frank Markus’ “technologue” editorial on Claytronics in the July 2009 issue of Motor Trend magazine. In what has to be one of the most unique explanations of the potential impact of a CMU research project, Markus gushes,
If Princess Leia had broadcast her plea for help in pario, Obi-Wan, C-3PO, and Luke could have stroked her cinnabons.
You can read the entire article on Motor Trend’s website here.
More modestly, but just as satisfying, is seeing one of the project’s graduate students, Michael Ashley-Rollman (who I co-advise with Seth Goldstein) have his research poster at the PLDI conference get picked to compete in the ACM student research competition. Way to go, Michael!
Peter Lee @ July 3, 2009
i did not claytronics pubishes so much.
nice review.
when you are on a project you will come across many challenges that you have to face compulsory