Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves? | Video on TED.com

Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 09:49AM
Ralph Kerle in Innovation, Innovation, Invention, Technology, creativity, manufacture

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.

Article originally appeared on The Creative Leadership Forum - Collaborate - Create - Commercialise & Transformational Change (http://thecreativeleadershipforum.com/).