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PCT No. PCT/GB95/00460 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 11, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 11, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 3, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/23676 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 8, 1995Programmable material is a collection of substantially cubic shaped bricks called monomers that move relative to each other under computer control to sculpt engineering structures (5) and mechanisms (6) (walking machine) illustrated in FIG. 2. The monomers have features to lock to other monomers and slide relative to other monomers without separating. The monomers are fault tolerant against damage; functional monomers move faulty monomers and replace them with functioning clones. Movement of monomers is broken down systematically into streamers, gateways, highways and reservoir methods to obtain individual monomer movement paths required to synthesize a structure. Specialized monomers can carry tools which together with synthesis of custom structures create custom machines.
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