There are many ways in which to build new bodies across scale, from the biomolecular to the scale of tissues and organs. 有许多方法可以超越常规来建立新的身体，从生物分子层面到组织和器官层面。 Today, I want to talk a...
At MIT, we're thinking about NeuroEmbodied Design. 在麻省理工学院，我们正在考虑神经体现设计。 In this design process, the designer designs human flesh and bone, the biological body itself, 在这个设计过程中，设计者们设...
I'm an MIT professor, but I do not design buildings or computer systems. 我是麻省理工学院的教授，但我并不设计建筑或计算机系统。 Rather, I build body parts, bionic legs that augment human walking and running. 确切来说，我...
So, so far I've talked about rules for insects and for fish and for robots, 那么到目前为止，我谈到了昆虫、鱼群还有机器人的各种行为规则， but what about the rules that apply to our own human collective? 但是那些适用于...
And coming back to the snorkeling trip, we actually understand a great deal about the rules that fish schools use. 再回到那个潜泳之旅，事实上我们非常了解鱼群的运动规则。 So if we can invent the bodies to go with that, 如果我...
So here, you're going to see some simulated robots. 这里，你们可以看到一些模拟机器人。 So the simulated robot has a motion rule, which is how it traverses through the structure, looking for a place to fit in, 模拟机器人有自己的...
So here, you're going to see a thousand robots that are working together to self-assemble the letter K. 这里你们可以看到一千个机器人合作自发组成字母K。 The K is on its side. And the important thing is that no one is in charge. 完...
So for example, spontaneous synchronization, 例如自发同步现象， how audiences are clapping and suddenly start all clapping together, the fireflies flashing together. 观众是怎样鼓掌，怎样突然一起开始鼓掌的，萤火虫如何同...
Secondly, and the thing that I still find most remarkable, is that we know that there are no leaders supervising this fish school. 其次，我觉得最引人注目的是鱼群中没有指挥者监督它们。 Instead, this incredible collective mind...
In my early days as a graduate student, I went on a snorkeling trip off the coast of the Bahamas. 当我还在读研究生的时候，我在巴哈马海岸参加了一次潜泳之旅。 I'd actually never swum in the ocean before, so it was a bit ter...
