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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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