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So I know you're probably thinking, okay, that's cool,
我知道大家現在大概會想，好吧，看著挺酷的，
but how do we use any of this stuff for the built environment?
但是我們怎么把它應用到生產環境里？
So I've started a lab at MIT, and it's called the Self-Assembly Lab.
我在MIT（美國麻省理工學院）開展了一個實驗室，它叫做“自我組裝實驗室”。
We're dedicated to trying to develop programmable materials for the built environment.
我們致力于為實際生產環境開發可程序化的材料。
And we think there's a few key sectors that have fairly near-term applications.
我們認為有幾個關鍵部分它們可以在相當短期內得到應用。
One of those is in extreme environments.
其中之一就是在極限環境下。
These are scenarios where it's difficult to build, our current construction techniques don't work,
有些情況是建造起來非常困難，我們現有的建造技術行不通的，
it's too large, it's too dangerous, it's expensive, too many parts.
它太大，太危險，太昂貴，太龐雜。
And space is a great example of that.
太空就是一個非常好的例子。
We're trying to design new scenarios for space that have fully reconfigurable
我們正在為太空環境設計新的可以完全重置和自我組裝的結構，
and self-assembly structures that can go from highly functional systems from one to another.
它們可以自我轉化成各種功能強大的系統。
Let's go back to infrastructure. In infrastructure, we're working with a company out of Boston called Geosyntec.
我們再回到基礎設施建設。在這個領域，我們正和波士頓一家叫Geosyntec的公司合作。
And we're developing a new paradigm for piping.
正在開發一種新的管道模板。
Imagine if water pipes could expand or contract to change capacity or change flow rate,
想象一下如果水管可以膨脹或者收縮來改變容積、改變流量、
or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves.
它甚至可以自己起伏蠕動來傳輸水。
So this isn't expensive pumps or valves. This is a completely programmable and adaptive pipe on its own.
這就不需要昂貴的水泵或者水閥了。這是一個完全可程序化和自我調節的管道。
So I want to remind you today of the harsh realities of assembly in our world.
我今天想要提醒大家的是——當今殘酷的組裝現實。
These are complex things built with complex parts that come together in complex ways.
這些龐雜的集合體是用復雜的零件以繁復的方式組裝起來的。
So I would like to invite you from whatever industry you're from to join us in reinventing and reimagining the world,
所以，我真誠的邀請大家，不管你們來自哪個領域，和我們一起重塑和重新想象這個世界，
how things come together from the nanoscale to the human scale,
怎樣將微觀納米世界和宏觀人類生活的事物結合在一起，
so that we can go from a world like this to a world that's more like this.
從而，我們可以從這樣一個世界過渡到一個更類似于這樣的世界。
Thank you.
謝謝大家。
