As with other Self-Assembly Lab projects, including the chair that builds itself we debuted earlier this year, Self-Replicating Spheres is built on customized magnets. When director Skylar Tibbits and his collaborator, Dimitrios Mairopoulos, place the spheres on a table that supplies passive energy, the spheres stick together to form a cell wall-like grouping that grows as researchers “feed” it more spheres. When it reaches critical mass, the “cell” divides into two smaller “cells,” which can then replicate again and again as they get more “food.”

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