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.