[Tyler]

Robots: Programmable Matter
     




The latest episode of the Robots
Podcast looks at the following scenario: 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. Tolley and Neubert give an introduction into Programmable Matter and
then present their research on stochastic assembly of matter in fluid,
including both simulation (see video above) and real-world
implementation. Read
on or tune
in!


   

http://robots.net/article/3052.html