Sakana AI's Smart Cellular Bricks featured in Scientific American: 197 bricks self-identify and self-repair
SakanaAILabs · x · 2026-09-17
Scientific American's latest issue features Sakana AI's Smart Cellular Bricks research, led by Sebastian Risi with IT University of Copenhagen and Autodesk. Each of 200 simple cubes runs the same small neural network and talks only to direct neighbors — no central controller, no sense of position. From purely local exchanges, the collective converges on the correct global shape, locates damage, and guides its own repair, achieving 100% accuracy across 197 physical bricks.
Related event: Sakana AI's Smart Cellular Bricks Published in Nature Communications(2 posts)→
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