Frontiers: Can a Spacecraft Heal Itself?

​What would it take for machines to recover from damage the way living systems do?

​Join us for a live research talk on Autonomous Self-Repair, our work on decentralized fault repair in modular spacecraft. We will present a bio-inspired stress-sharing strategy that allows surviving modules to detect nearby failures, propagate directional distress signals, and move toward damaged regions using only local information and connectivity-safe motions.

​We will cover:

• ​how the repair policy works

• ​how modular structures respond to random and localized damage

• ​what the simulations reveal about scalability and repairability

• ​how this connects to machine analogues of morphogenesis and homeostasis

• ​the next steps toward hardware demonstrations and more capable reconfigurable systems

​The talk will be followed by an open Q&A and discussion.

​Read the technical article: https://www.manifoldrg.com/stress-sharing-for-decentralized-fault-repair-in-modular-spacecraft/

​Read the preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13444

​Apply to join Rapid Reconfiguration: https://www.manifoldrg.com/os-research-fellow-applied-mathematics-rapid-reconfiguration/

​Join the Advancement Network: https://www.manifoldrg.com/advancement-network/

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