The Emergence of 4D Printing

This video was presented at a TED conference in 2013 and features Skylar Tibbits, a TED fellow, artist, and computational architect. In the video, Tibbits discusses 4D printing, an emerging technology that will allow the creation of printed objects that can reshape themselves or self-assemble overtime. His discussion includes the idea behind 4D printing and what he has been working on that includes the Self-Assembly lab at MIT. The video runs 8:19 minutes in length. A transcript of the video is also included.