Month: September 2022

"PROGRAMMABLE MATTER is matter which has the ability to change its physical properties (shape, density, moduli, conductivity, optical properties, etc.) in a programmable fashion, based upon user input or autonomous sensing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

PROCESSING INFORMATION. "Programmable matter is thus linked to the concept of a material which inherently has the ability to perform information processing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

FIRST APPROACH. "In one school of thought the programming could be external to the material and might be achieved by the "application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, etc. For example, a liquid crystal display is a form of programmable matter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

SECOND APPROACH. "A second school of thought is that the individual units of the ensemble can compute and the result of their computation is a change in the ensemble's physical properties. An example of this more ambitious form of programmable matter is claytronics." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

"SCALE is one key differentiator between different forms of programmable matter. At one end of the spectrum reconfigurable modular robotics pursues a form of programmable matter where the individual units are in the centimeter size range. At the nanoscale end of the spectrum there are a tremendous number of different bases for programmable matter, ranging from shape changing molecules to quantum dots." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn