When you were a child, Lego offered the exciting imaginative play of building the shapes of buildings, devices, or robots. Transformers toys manifested the imagination even more fully, with vehicles that metamorphosed into robots and vice versa. But of course, neither Lego nor Transformers could do what actual buildings, devices, or robots could do.
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: MIT, Transformable, Shape-shifting, Metamaterials