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Using Magnetism to Self-Assemble Shapes – Another Approach to Creating Tactile Shapes Magnetically

Description

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are using magnetism to self-assemble tactile shapes. Cubes can be programmed very discerningly so that they only attach to a certain side of another cube. When considering construction of complex objects, the programmability of these cubes can change the production process in the future.

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Bibliography

Gordon, R. (2022, October 20). Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://news.mit.edu/2022/reprogrammable-materials-selectively-self-assemble-1020

Nisser, M., Makaram, Y., Faruqi, F., Suzuki, R., & Mueller, S. (2022). Selective self-assembly using re-programmable magnetic pixels. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981879