MIT working on self-assembling phone
23 Aug 2016
Researchers are MIT's Self-Assembly Lab are working on a new project that envisions a self assembling phone , according to a report from Fast Codesign. The phone would come in parts capable of assembling on their own.
According to commentators, the process worked on the protein model of forming cells.
They say the MIT Self-Assembly Lab is trying to take what had been learnt from atoms, cells, and planets, and apply those concepts to things that could be created in the lab.
Such self-assembling phones would actually work out to be a lot cheaper and easier to make than the assembly-line manufactured ones that we use today.
The leader of the project is Skylar Tibbits, an architect and research scientist, at MIT's Self-Assembly Lab. According to Fast Company the project was a collaboration with artist and researcher Marcelo Coelho.
CNN reported quoting Coelho, "This technology has the potential to completely change the product design landscape. On one extreme, it will allow large companies to rapidly generate many versions of a product and iterate based on customer feedback. On the other, it will allow small design studios to easily scale their production from a few units to thousands with little overhead, closing the loop on the democratization of design started by crowd-funding."
