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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

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

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

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

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

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