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Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?
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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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TED.com
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TEDTalks, TED2011, TED, Talks, design, technology, 2011
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