Month: September 2022

COMMERCIALIZED SMART MATERIALS. "Piezoelectric materials. Electrostrictive materials. Magnetostrictive materials. Shape memory materials. Smart fluids. Smart hydrogels. Electrochromic materials. Phase change materials." https://lnkd.in/dJmK6u7 View in LinkedIn

CATOMS. "The challenge of claytronics is to develop tiny robots called claytronic atoms-catoms and to find how to make the catoms communicate with each other to form interchangeable objects. In analogy with atoms from which matter consists, catoms represent the smallest indivisible units of programmable matter." http://jiaps.org/claytronics-from-atoms-to-catoms/ View in LinkedIn

CLAYTRONIC ATOMS. "Claytronics consists of a collection of individual components called claytronic atoms, or catoms. In order to be viable, catoms need to fit a set of criteria. First, catoms need to be able to move in three dimensions relative to each other and be able to adhere to each other to form a three-dimensional shape." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE UNITS OF MATTER. "Second, the catoms need to be able to communicate with each other in an ensemble and be able to compute state information, possibly with assistance from each other." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics View in LinkedIn

LOCAL ACTS, DISTAL ACTIONS. "Rather than drawing up a global blueprint, the researchers hope to use a set of local rules, whereby each catom needs to know only the positions of its immediate neighbors." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

WIRED PARTICLES. "Fundamentally, catoms consist of a CPU, a network device for communication, a single pixel display, several sensors, an onboard battery, and a means to adhere to one another." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics View in LinkedIn

SHAPE SHIFTING MATTER. "With claytronics the art on your walls or for example statues could be changed depending on your mood and needs. Cellphone could turn into laptop and when the work is done, back into cellphone." http://jiaps.org/claytronics-from-atoms-to-catoms/ View in LinkedIn

GOOD VIDEO on Clatronics. https://lnkd.in/dxdjY8e View in LinkedIn

"PROGRAMMABLE MATTER describes a form of controlled, shape-shifting matter. Such a material would have the ability to transition from its current shape into any desired shape; and, this transition would occur on command, under the matter’s own power, and with complete reversibility. If fully realized, programmable matter could lead to a paradigm shift in the way architects, engineers, and everyday citizens view materials." http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/Ubicomp09_Amend.pdf View in LinkedIn

"THERE IS NO END to the list of potential applications for programmable matter, and as its name indicates, the material could be retasked for new, disparate applications at whim." https://lnkd.in/dGPJJNA View in LinkedIn