Multimedia Gallery - A metallic digital material is shown here.

June 11, 2014

A metallic digital material is shown here.

A metallic digital material is shown here. Digital materials are bulk composites from digital parts with programmable material characteristics. This method has produced the lightest, strongest materials in existence, as well as materials with tunable and exotic responses to external and internal loads. Fabrication efficiency of these materials scales with the development of assembler robots that use the geometry of the lattice for locomotion and error-correction.

Credit: The Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT.

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