Researchers from MIT have created a mobile device that can be self-assembled in seconds. Its original Self-Assembly Lab, developed by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), consists of six separate parts assembled into two different portable devices.
Even in unstable environments the device has the ability to self-assemble within minutes.
The principle behind device self-assembly is simplicity. In the following video you will see that the 6 cmeyea they will begin to rotate until the parts of the device (which do not break) meet each other and "snap" like puzzle pieces, forming two different devices.
Here, let's say the pieces stick together with magnets.
If the specific technology become mainstream, it could have serious consequences for the manufacturing industry.
MIT reports that the cost of automation could be reduced, eliminating the need to shift work abroad (where there is cheap labor), since workers will not need it.
