Fellows in the field: Skylar Tibbits
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Skylar Tibbits and his team at MIT's Self Assembly Lab are working on materials to create 4-D printing. What exactly is 4-D printing? The Self Assembly Lab works to create physical objects that can self-construct from stored memory inside their materials, adding what is commonly referred to as the 4th dimension — time — to 3-D printing. Science fiction? Not quite...
If you could 3D print anything, what would it be? How would you make it 4D and why?
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