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Science fiction is a great inspiration for science. How can we build reconfigurable robots like Transformers or Terminator 2? How can we build replicators that mass-produce a given shape at the nano scale? Recently we’ve been exploring possible answers to these questions through computational geometry.
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Demaine, E.D. (2012). Origami Robots and Star Trek Replicators. In: Chao, KM., Hsu, Ts., Lee, DT. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7676. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35261-4_3
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