Researchers at MIT have created a mobile device that can self-assemble in seconds. The Self-Assembly Lab, developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), consists of six separate parts that assemble into two different mobile devices.
Even in unstable environments the device has the ability to self-assemble within minutes.
The principle behind the self-assembly of the device is simplicity. In the video below you will see that the 6 pieces will start to rotate until the components of the device (which do not break) meet each other and “click” like puzzle pieces, forming two different devices.
Here we should mention that the pieces stick together with magnets.
If this technology becomes mainstream, it could have serious consequences for the manufacturing industry.
MIT says that the cost of automation could be reduced by eliminating the need to shift work overseas (where there is cheap labor) since workers would not be needed.
