TED Talks MIT
researcher Skylar
Tibbits works on
self-assembly --
the idea that
instead of
building something
(a chair, a
skyscraper), we
can create m
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more)
TED Talks MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together. It's a big concept at early stages; Tibbits shows us three in-the-lab projects that hint at what a self-assembling future might look like.
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