{"id":124189,"date":"2021-06-23T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-four-stages-of-intelligent-matter-that-will-bring-us-iron-mans-endgame-nanosuit"},"modified":"2021-06-23T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:22:17","slug":"the-four-stages-of-intelligent-matter-that-will-bring-us-iron-mans-endgame-nanosuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-four-stages-of-intelligent-matter-that-will-bring-us-iron-mans-endgame-nanosuit","title":{"rendered":"The Four Stages of Intelligent Matter That Will Bring Us Iron Man\u2019s \u2018Endgame\u2019 Nanosuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-four-stages-of-intelligent-matter-that-will-bring-us-iron-mans-endgame-nanosuit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine clothing that can warm or cool you, depending on how you\u2019re feeling. Or artificial skin that responds to touch, temperature, and wicks away moisture automatically. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/08\/04\/the-age-of-cyborgs-has-arrived\/\">cyborg<\/a> hands controlled with DNA motors that can adjust based on signals from the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the era of intelligent matter\u2014an unconventional AI computing idea directly woven into the fabric of synthetic matter. Powered by brain-based <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/computing\/\">computing<\/a>, these materials can weave the skins of soft robots or form microswarms of drug-delivering nanobots, all while reserving power as they learn and adapt.<\/p>\n<p>Sound like sci-fi? It gets weirder. The crux that\u2019ll guide us towards intelligent matter, said Dr. W.H.P. Pernice at the University of Munster and colleagues, is a distributed \u201cbrain\u201d across the material\u2019s \u201cbody\u201d\u2014 far more alien than the structure of our own minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine clothing that can warm or cool you, depending on how you\u2019re feeling. Or artificial skin that responds to touch, temperature, and wicks away moisture automatically. Or cyborg hands controlled with DNA motors that can adjust based on signals from the outside world. Welcome to the era of intelligent matter\u2014an unconventional AI computing idea directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1499,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-cyborgs","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}