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We present a MATLAB toolbox that interfaces directly with the Intelitek Scorbotone of the most widely used educational articulated robots. The toolbox provides a userfriendly, open source method of accessing the robot's functionality from within MATLAB's powerful integrated development environment, which already includes numerical solvers, image processing routines, neural network libraries, and control system design tools. We describe the development process and the toolbox's features; and illustrate its capabilities with some projects from our own Introductory Robotics class where it was beta tested. A student opinion survey indicated that the toolbox was well received, but suggests its stability could be improved.

Absnncf-This pap& presents the design of a robotic module that is the building block lor a magnetically-coupled reconfigurahle robot network. The developed module has on-board Computation, IR communication and integrated power. The development of this modular network and the associated reconfiguration methodology is motivated by the premise that magnetic latching is much more plausible than physical latching as scale decreases to the micro and oano levels.

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