3D Printing - Pfft, that's so last year!

Great video from TED in Mar 2011 where MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits discusses his teams efforts into making machines that will form into
whatever they have been programmed to become...

http://www.ted.com/talks/skylar_tibbits_can_we_make_things_t hat_make_themselves.html

can we 'from 2011'

they did it 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21614176

I see this Fully Working in about 3013 :laughing:

@shop4stuff - yes, but what they show in 2013 was proposed in the 2011 video - and actually demonstrated.

@robertbonenfant - Yes, there is a ways to go yet ... hopefully we won't have to wait until 3013!

easy mistake - shop4stuff... stop4stuff

anyhow did I miss the plot where the 2011 vid showed a shake-it-up to form thingy but the latest vid (in the bbc report) shows a 3D printed thing that gets wet to change form?

Paul

No, you didn't miss it... he only talked about it in the video.

Which video?

The one in the BBC article I linked to has a 3D printed item that changes shape - the guys name is the same in the report too - am I being daft here in saying that the TED video talks about it, the BBC article and video shows it?

Paul

He talked about it on TED - in 2011 - and then in 2013 it is shown in your BBC link. In the TED talk he shows two changing shape while being shaken.