SELF-ASSEMBLY. “Imagine being able to throw a hand-full of smart matter in a tank full of liquid and then pulling out a ready-to-use wrench once the matter has assembled. This is the vision of this episode’s guests Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell University, NY.” This is truly the stuff of SciFi but programmable materials have now opened that door. ”
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