for visualization purposes
Drag to orbit, wheel to zoom. Key names the parts on the robot itself. Frame resizes the cuboid and slides each docking station along the edge it is bolted to. Cables drives a robot by its three cable displacements: pull all three together and the body shortens dead straight, pull them unevenly and the difference is what bends it.
Where a configuration does not offer the control of one of its robots, that
robot’s pose is held fixed so a dock cannot come apart under the sliders — the
hardware has no such
restriction, and can be driven in ways this page does not reproduce. Nothing here checks for
collision. Every dimension comes from the MM block at the top of the source; correct
a number there and the whole model follows.