Year: 2022

MATERIAL SCIENCES REVOLUTION. "Claytronics has the potential to greatly affect many areas of daily life, such as telecommunication, human-computer interfaces, and entertainment." Material sciences used to be a backwater. Well, no longer. It is now one of the hottest areas in physical sciences. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMMABLE MATTER. “Any form of programmable matter which can pass the ‘Turing test’ for appearance [looking indistinguishable from the real thing] will enable an entire new way of thinking about the world ... Applications like injectable surgical instruments, morphable cellphones, 3D interactive life-size TV and so on are just the tip of the iceberg.” https://lnkd.in/dDwjZMg View in LinkedIn

IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT. "Instead of having to buy a premanufactured object we would just download the design and with the help claytronics it would form into different things. Claytronical objects will be able to form complex structures and perform elaborate tasks that may seem impossible with today’s technologies." http://jiaps.org/claytronics-from-atoms-to-catoms/ View in LinkedIn

UNIMAGINABLE OPTIONS. "The driving force behind programmable matter is the actual hardware that is manipulating itself into whatever form is desired." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics View in LinkedIn

TERRA FUTURA. "By 2050, programmable matter was commonplace. This revolutionized human life. Furniture could transform into something else. A bed could become a sofa. Chairs could be personalized. Parts of the house could be changed. Electronics were adaptable to all conditions. A car's surface could change color. Or it could self-heal. Tires could adapt for different terrains and weather conditions. Implantable brain-computer interfaces were needed to control the catoms." http://future.wikia.com/wiki/Programmable_Matter_(Terra_Futura) View in LinkedIn

SWARM BIOLOGY. "Properly programmed, the ensemble will then find the right configuration through an emergent process.The single-celled slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, for example, aggregates into a multicellular body when under duress, without any central brain." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

DYNAMIC MATERIALS. "The goal of the claytronics project (AKA Synthetic reality) is to understand and develop the hardware and software neccesary to create programmable matter, a material which can be programmed to form dynamic three dimensional shapes which can interact in the physical world and visually take on an arbitrary appearance." https://lnkd.in/dq97atd View in LinkedIn

CREATING A NEW SYNTHETIC REALITY. "One possible outcome of continued" "progress in high-volume nanoscale assembly is the ability to inexpensively produce millimeter-scale units that integrate computing, sensing, actuation, and locomotion mechanisms. A collection of such units can be viewed as a form of programmable matter."" "" " View in LinkedIn

EMERGING SYNTHETIC REALITY. "Such a capability could change society even more profoundly than the Internet has. If this magical morphable matter were cheap and effective, it would allow us to send and download copies of objects as easily as we do digital documents. We could duplicate an object and then reshape it to our whims." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

SMART MATERIALS MARKET. "The global market for smart materials totaled about $26.0 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $42.2 billion in 2019, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.2% for the period 2014-2019." https://lnkd.in/dJmK6u7 View in LinkedIn