MIT Reveals Wondrous Modular Robots Inspired By Proteins

An incredible research prototype may change the way all objects are built and work in the future. The computer--or more accurately, the Turing Machine--changed the world with a groundbreaking idea: Any piece of information could be coded in 0s and 1s. And so theoretically, any question could be answered by sorting these numbers through an automated process. Even today, in the era of microprocessors and 4G Internet, it’s a rendition of these 0s and 1s that apply Instagram filters, power Google’s predictive search, or render headshots in Call of Duty. Working under a grant from DARPA, Neil Gershenfeld, head of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, along with graduate students Ara Knaian and Kenneth Cheun, have flipped this idea on its head. Rather than turning real ideas into binary code, they’re turning binary code into real ideas.Read Full Story