MrGate t1_j49vlxa wrote on January 14, 2023 at 4:23 AM

Reply to comment by SoylentRox in Programmable matter by crua9

I dont think you can really compare human cells and programmable matter tbh.

but id disagreee to the being as strong or light, as their is various factors of the property of a material based on how its arranged at the atomic scale.

it all would really depend on the programmer who will write the program to make said object.

and in theory their could be hundreds of programmable matters. each with unique traits that can connect together etc.

like say a part of an object you need, needs to be flexible, but the shell around it needs to be hard and conductive.

so a rubber/plastic programmable matter and a copper or steel like programmable matter would connect together to create said object

SoylentRox t1_j49wqxg wrote on January 14, 2023 at 4:33 AM

Maybe. It's still made of little robots latching themselves together. Not really the sci Fi concept of programmable matter, just a smaller version of those robots various labs show swarming together.

The guts of each robot is not contributing to the properties you want. So the item might have to be thicker, heavier, or harder than it could be.

I think I gave a pretty clear and simpler way to accomplish the same thing. Programmable matter will be used but only when it's a good way to accomplish a task.