Researchers from MIT have created a mobile device which can be self-assembled in seconds. Its original Self-Assembly Lab, developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), consists of six separate parts that are assembled into two different portables Appliances.
Even in unstable environments the device has the ability to self-assemble within minutes.
The principle behind self-assembly of the device is simplicity. In the video below you will see that the 6 pieces will start to spin until the parts of the device (which do not break) meet each other and "button" like the pieces of the puzzle, forming two different devices.
Here, let's say the pieces stick together with magnets.
If this technology becomes 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.
