Nanotechnology · Projected milestone
Programmable matter
Estimated year~2075
12% by 2080 · including earlier years
The year is an editorial timing estimate. The percentage applies to occurrence by the stated deadline. These estimates are not calibrated odds.
Materials made of tiny cooperating units change shape and properties on command.
Explore this milestone on the interactive mapWhat the forecast means
Milestone stage: milestone (legacy definition)
Completion criteria: Legacy milestone: refine the observable threshold before resolving.
This page describes a forecast, rather than an achieved result. Read the methodology and assumptions.
Built on
Led to
- Home replicatorForecast · ~2077enables
- Pocket shelterForecast · ~2078enables
- Sculptures that reshape themselvesForecast · ~2078enables
- Toys that build themselvesForecast · ~2078enables
- Boots that turn into skis and finsForecast · ~2079enables
- Shape-shifting home robotForecast · ~2079enables
- Shape-shifting fabricsForecast · ~2080enables
- Homes that move themselvesForecast · ~2082enables
- Shape-shifting pocket deviceForecast · ~2082enables
- Shape-shifting first-aid kitForecast · ~2083enables
- Shape-shifting toys and game piecesForecast · ~2085enables
- Products that take themselves apartForecast · ~2086enables
- Shape-shifting personal vehicleForecast · ~2086enables
- Utility fogForecast · ~2090enables
- Suit for skydiving from orbitForecast · ~2091enables
- Nanomaterial clothingForecast · ~2092enables
- Smart-matter objectsForecast · ~2092enables
- Homes made of smart matterForecast · ~2093enables
- Bodies redesigned at willForecast · ~2095enables
Sources & evidence
No individual source links are recorded for this milestone. Source coverage and review status vary across the atlas.
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.