bioLogic, growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Developer - Tangible Media Group (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?13176)

Home page - bioLogic (http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/biologic)

by Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Chin-Yi Cheng, Jifei Ou, Oksana Anilionyte, Hiroshi Ishii
2015

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https://youtu.be/ONKhW12onpw

Biologic

Published on Oct 29, 2015


Initiated from MIT Media Lab, BioLogic is our attempt to program living organism and invent responsive and transformable interfaces of the future. Nature has engineered its own actuators, as well as the efficient material composition, geometry and structure to utilize its actuators and achieve functional transformation. Based on the natural phenomenon of hygromorphic transformation, we introduce a specific type of living cells as nanoactuators that react to body temperature and humidity change. The living nanoactuator can be controlled by electrical signal and communicate with the virtual world as well. A digital printing system and design simulation software are developed to assist the design of transformation structure.

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http://vimeo.com/142212881

Making of Biologic
October 13, 2015