Metamaterials with stiffness tunability have demonstrated great potential in mechanical systems that operate in variable environments. Real-time stiffness visualization, which translates the stiffness ...
A team co-led by UC San Diego and the University of Michigan reports that short pulses of sound could remotely drag a structural defect through a metamaterial lattice, potentially letting researchers ...
A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego, University of Michigan, and the French National ...
Curved origami structures provide tunable flexibility to robots. New research that employs curved origami structures has dramatic implications in the development of robotics going forward, providing ...
A simple sponge has improved how robots grasp, scientists have found. A simple sponge has improved how robots grasp, scientists from the University of Bristol have found. This easy-to-make ...
A team of researchers from KAIST and Seoul National University has developed a groundbreaking electronic ink that enables room-temperature printing of variable-stiffness circuits capable of switching ...
This study presents a bionic robotic trunk that adapts stiffness rapidly, enhancing its ability to perform delicate tasks and ...
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) have invented a new type of tunable semiconductor laser that ...