LATTICE

01 / Approach

LATTICE fabricates ceramic networks whose local electrical and mechanical responses perform constrained inference in place. A separate, conventional authority layer verifies the permitted response envelope. Damaged regions can be bypassed; the material cannot vote to relax its own limits.

02 / Selected finding

In the L-31 panel series, a 1.2-metre adaptive surface retained its declared vibration-control envelope after 18 percent of its computational cells were disconnected. Local response settled within 900 microseconds without a round trip to an external processor.

03 / Evidence boundary

The result concerns a manufactured test panel under six calibrated load profiles. It is neither a general-purpose intelligence nor a material that repairs itself. Removed cells remained removed.

04 / Ongoing inquiry

Current work examines how an embodied model can be retired when its learned response is useful but its calibration history is no longer trustworthy.