Researchers from MIT have created a mobile device that can be self-assembled in seconds. Its original Self-Assembly Lab, developed by scientists at the Institute of Technology Massachusettss (MIT), consists of six separate parts which are 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 pieces will start 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 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.