We introduce and fabricate a metamaterial that consists of 5 mm-sized 3D cells that each possess actuators, sensors, and circuitry to enable desired mechanical properties that emerge from closed-loop swarm control according to uploaded instructions.
We propose a strategy to design localized transformation optics devices, and take the localized invisibility cloaks as examples to illustrate their special properties. Different from the global cloaks that make the enclosed objects completely invisible, the localized cloaks will conceal the scattering signals of certain parts of the enclosed objects and keep the signals of remaining parts being unchanged. We design, fabricate, and measure a localized dc invisibility cloak in the steady currents by using the localized transformation electrostatics. Simulation and experimental results show that the potential distribution outside the localized dc invisibility cloak is exactly the same as that of a part of the cloaked object.
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