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Interesting article about "Claytronics" or programmable matter - "The day when doctors routinely made house calls may be past, but that doesn't mean that someday you won't routinely see your doctor in your home -- with emphasis on "see." That is to say, your doctor could physically work out of her office. But a three-dimensional lookalike, assembled from perhaps a billion tiny, BB-like robots, could be her stand-in in your home. She could talk with you, touch you, look at you, all under the control of the real, if distant, doc." Link. Project page here.
Claytronics - Synthetic Reality
Interesting article about "Claytronics" or programmable matter - "The day when doctors routinely made house calls may be past, but that doesn't mean that someday you won't routinely see your doctor in your home -- with emphasis on "see." That is to say, your doctor could physically work out of her office. But a three-dimensional lookalike, assembled from perhaps a billion tiny, BB-like robots, could be her stand-in in your home. She could talk with you, touch you, look at you, all under the control of the real, if distant, doc." Link. Project page here.
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Dec 14, 2005 05:50 AM
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