The Aurelia Institute has twice demonstrated that the subscale Tesserae tiles can self-assemble on the ISS.
Credit: Aurelia Institute
Building a space station is dangerous work, requiring spacewalks by astronauts and complex robotic arms. But what if a space station could be engineered to build itself? That is the idea behind the Aurelia Institute’s Tesserae tile structures: pentagon- and hexagon-shape modules with magnets along...
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