"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary. In reality, it perfectly ...

A simple bundle of staples reveals an unusual physical behavior, one that shifts between rigidity and fluidity depending on ...

The Palm Beach Architectural Commission unanimously voted to defer approval for a greenhouse planned for billionaire Thomas ...

An international research team led by scientists from Skoltech has developed a method to position molecules on the surface of ultrathin materials with unprecedented precision using molecular DNA ...

Abstract: Soft robots show advantages in flexibility and safe interaction compared with traditional rigid robots. The modular design of soft robots further improves their reconfigurability and easy ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, and the National Institute for Materials Science of Japan have developed a ...

When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another planet – they generally have the highest number of needs and the lowest ...

In typical rollable structures, the cross-section is flat in the storage phase so that it can wrap smoothly around a central hub, and transforms into a corrugated cross-section in the deployed phase ...

Researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Houston, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Pusan National University, and Southeast University designed fully ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...