Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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So robots that can build robots that can walk and manipulate.
And we're just now, we have a project
at the layer below that where there's endless attention today to billion dollar chip fab investments.
But a really interesting thing we passed through is today, the smallest transistors you can buy as a single transistor, just commercially for electronics, is actually the size of an early transistor in an integrated circuit.
So we're using these machines, making machines, making assemblers to place those parts to not use a billion dollar chip fab to make integrated circuits, but actually assemble little electronic components.
Right.
That's a research project in my lab called DICE, on discrete assembly of integrated electronics.
And we're just at the point to really start to take seriously this notion of not having a chip fab make integrated electronics, but having not a 3D printer, but a thing that's a cross between...
A pick and place makes circuit boards in 2D.
The 3D printer extrudes in 3D.
We're making sort of a micromanipulator that acts like a printer, but it's placing to build electronics in 3D.
So that's why that's a great question.
So I have a prize that's almost but not been claimed for the students whose thesis can walk out of the printer.
Oh, nice.
So you have to print the thesis...
with the means to exit the printer, and it has to contain its description of the thesis that says how to do that.
And I've had a few students almost get to that.
And so...
In what I'm describing, there's the stack where we're getting closer, but it's still quite a few years to really go from us.
So there's a layer below the transistors where we assemble the base materials that become the transistor.
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