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Markus Kayser1, Levi Cai1, Sara Falcone1

  • 1Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.

Science Robotics
|November 3, 2020
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Swarm-based fabrication of interwoven composite tubes via a fully autonomous, cooperative system can help create architectural-scale structures in effective and efficient ways, including in remote environments.

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