{"id":205064,"date":"2025-01-31T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/programmable-matter-mit-building-self-assembling-robots-for-space"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:22:05","slug":"programmable-matter-mit-building-self-assembling-robots-for-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/programmable-matter-mit-building-self-assembling-robots-for-space","title":{"rendered":"Programmable matter: MIT building self-assembling robots for space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4rmwyjOxtg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT scientists are building ElectroVoxels, small, smart, self-assembling robots designed for space.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s programmable matter, infinitely recyclable large-scale 3D printing, if you will, and it could be the future of robotics and machinery in space. In this TechFirst, I chat with MIT PhD student Martin Nisser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT scientists are building ElectroVoxels, small, smart, self-assembling robots designed for space. It\u2019s programmable matter, infinitely recyclable large-scale 3D printing, if you will, and it could be the future of robotics and machinery in space. In this TechFirst, I chat with MIT PhD student Martin Nisser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205064","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}