SCIENCE SCENE // MIT Research Skylar Tibbits Explains "Self-Assembly"

For people who make things, the materials are as important as the process of constructing. So imagine if that material was animate, robotic and knew how to assemble itself. In this mind-blowing TED Talk, MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits talks about how that might one day happen--and as it were, how we do have the technology, While still a long way off, it's fodder for a whole new world of makers (and inevitably, terrifying sci-fi horror flicks.)

--Layla Schlack