Programmable Materials
What are Programmable Materials? The term programmable material is originally termed by Professor Toffoli (Professor at Boston University, Electrical, and Computer Science Department) and Margolus (Physicist and Computer Scientist, research affiliate at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) while referring to an ensemble of fine-grained computing elements systematically layout in Space. Their finding is like this: there is a computational substrate that is composed of fine-grained computing nodes systematically arranged throughout space which communicate with the help of nearest-neighbour interactions only. For example, LCD or Liquid Crystal Display is one the form of the programmable matter. This concept of LCD is achieved by programming the material externally with the application of light, electricity, electric, and magnetic fields. One of the best examples of programmable matter is Claytronics, Claytronics i