Video: MIT Develops Chair That Self-Assembles in Water
Posted on February 27, 2015
MIT has developed a chair that self-assembles in water. The MIT's Self-Assembly Lab created the chair which has six separate pieces the assemble themselves in a tank of water. You can see it assemble in the above video which was filmed over a seven hour period.
The chair is described as Fluid Assembly Furniture by MIT. The researchers say they are studying autonomous assembly in complex and uncontrolled environments, such as air, space or water. It is the beginning of technology that could one day lead to large structures that assemble themselves in space or the ocean.
MIT says, "This experiment points towards an opportunity to self-assemble arbitrarily complex differentiated structures from furniture to components, electronics / devices or other unique structures. Once self-assembled, the structures can be removed, tested, used or disassembled and thrown back into the chamber."
The chair was selected because it has different components and is unlike self-assembly that has been sen before in "repetitive growth or self-similar structures." MIT says each piece of the chair is completely unique from one another.
