Programmable matter is matter that could change its physical properties including shape, density, colour, and more. And this matter can change itself based on user input from mobile phone apps, hologram computer screens, and users’ thoughts.
Programmable matter is enabling the creation of multiple innovations including:
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furniture that can change its height and width dimensions depending on the situation.
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living room sofas, tables, and kitchen countertops that can dissolve and turn into more appealing versions of themselves based on blueprints you download from the internet.
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walls in your house that can automatically change colour. And vehicles that can automatically change colour, change their body shapes, and repair themselves when dented
Computronium can take the shape of anything imaginable including rocks, metal, and polymer and its main task is to perform computation that users can wirelessly control.
Further in the future, programmable matter could even result in the creation of an invisibility cloak and we could gain the ability to construct an entire city in only a few minutes.
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Programmable matter is also enabling the emergence of computronium, which is a type of matter comprised of intelligent, atom-sized nanobots.