Preset Shapes
Kickstart ideas with programmable physical forms.
Resolution 1 physical shape display
Digital
information,
made
physical.
Nanoshape is building a programmable shape display platform that turns digital designs, data, and ideas into dynamic physical form.
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Connect Your Shape Board
Bring your ideas to life by connecting Nanoshape 1. Real-time sync, preset forms, and repeatable physical demos.
What is Nanoshape?
Shape is the next interface.
Nanoshape creates physical 3D interfaces that move computing beyond flat glass. The first platform, Nanoshape 1, is a compact board of moving vertical pins that can render simple shapes, surfaces, data, and product concepts in real time.
Pixels made information visible. Voxels will make information physical.
Interactive browser simulation
Nanoshape 1 board demo
Select a preset to send a form to the simulated Resolution 1 board. The interface mirrors the future Shape Studio workflow: choose, preview, and send to physical shape.
Current prototype
Nanoshape 1 is a tangible bridge between digital and physical form.
It is a macro-scale vertical pin array shape board designed for demos, labs, classrooms, prototyping, design visualization, and early institutional partners.
- Compact 3D shape display with grid-based vertical motion
- Useful for terrain, structures, product forms, and data surfaces
- Built as a visible, understandable first step toward programmable matter
Early institutional partners
Made for places where form becomes knowledge.
Design education
Let students move between digital sketches and tactile forms.
Prototyping labs
Preview product concepts, surfaces, and interaction patterns quickly.
Engineering visualization
Translate system data and structural thinking into physical height maps.
Architecture and terrain
Make landscapes, urban massing, and spatial studies immediately tangible.
HCI research
Study physical interfaces, tangible computing, and human-machine feedback.
Innovation centers
Create memorable demos for frontier computing and interactive exhibits.
Long-term technical theory
Vatom Theory explores programmable physical matter through parallel deformation.
A Vatom is a voxel-like physical unit that can locally change its state, height, geometry, or position. Instead of building shape only through serial robotic movement, Vatom systems aim for many cells to coordinate at once so surfaces and volumes can deform in parallel.
Roadmap
Three resolutions toward digital clay.
Nanoshape 1
Macro-scale vertical pin array. Real, visible, and useful for demos, education, research, and pilots.
Programmable Surface
Smaller units, stronger software, higher fidelity rendering, and deeper Vatom architecture tests.
Digital Clay
A long-term programmable matter platform for dynamic objects, interfaces, and 3D information.
Pilot access
Interested in becoming an early institutional partner?
Nanoshape is looking for universities, labs, institutions, prototyping centers, innovation hubs, and research groups to help shape the first generation of physical interface tools.