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Current soft machines lack the level of adaptability demonstrated by their biological counterparts, primarily due to limited real-time tunability and restricted reprogrammable space of properties and functionalities.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

“We’d rather not have an end-user reprogrammable system that creates a rogue agent running in our infrastructure, thank you.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Rewriting Braille: The development of reprogrammable Braille could make prohibitively heavy and expensive Braille books more accessible for blind readers, Sofie Werthan explains.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2018

And to the extent that collaborative robots are blank slates — multifunctional and reprogrammable as opposed to major investments whose functions are determined at purchase — they offer employees an opportunity to experiment.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2017

It's a warning that the next iPhone will be using reprogrammable SIMs — and if a carrier would like to offer that iPhone, it had better start getting ready.

From The Verge • Oct. 16, 2014