What if your Ikea desk could assemble itself? Instead of printing out a full shape, the 4-D printer creates a strand of multiple materials--and that strand becomes whatever you want it to, based on synthetic proteins and amino acids that twist and move.

 

http://www.fastcompany.com/3006145/mits-new-self-assembly-lab-building-paradigm-shift-4-d-manufacturing


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