Ariel Ekblaw
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1,219 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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The tiles themselves start turning to fit perfectly, and it's almost like a little ballet.
It's like someone's orchestrating them to come together, but it's autonomous.
It's just the magnets that pull them together, but once they come together, there are little sensors that determine, hey, was that a good neighbor or a bad neighbor?
I was inspired by a presentation that Neri Oxman gave when I was at MIT.
So Neri Oxman is just this absolutely stunning, inspiring architect and designer.
And she gave a class called Design Across Scales and invited Skylar Tibbetts from MIT to come.
Skylar Tibbetts runs the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT.
And they were talking about self-assembly on Earth.
And I knew, I was sitting in this audience thinking, we should be doing this in space.
It's so much harder to do it on the ground, which is what Skyler's lab was exploring in a bunch of really cool ways.
So I was very inspired.
That was 2016, so 10 years ago.
It was one of the first classes I took at MIT.
Yeah, it's been incredible.
I mean, we're so happy we started 10 years ago because now it's really it's so advantageous to have this technology ready now when the industry is ready for something really big like this with AI data centers.
Yes.
I think some combination of AI data centers, antennas, really large aperture arrays in orbit to improve the type of wavelengths that you can get down to the ground, basically.
So communications, telecommunications.
But my long-term passion is habitats.
So my goal is exactly, it's like I really want the long-term commercial success to be we are self-assembling these massive space habitats and putting people in them.
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