Abstract: The return of commercial supersonic flight requires innovative solutions to be developed that meet noise and efficiency requirements for overland flight. To study such a possibility NASA is ...
(Nanowerk News) Imagine a robot with fingers so flexible they can grasp an object the same way a human hand does. That’s the goal of soft robotics, but a major obstacle in advancing the field has been ...
German engineers have tested aircraft wings that physically change shape during flight, even during ...
Researchers have made tiny shape-shifting machines that morph into different forms one after another in response to magnetic fields (Nature 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1713-2). This sophisticated ...