Soft robot muscles with origami skeletons can lift 1,000 times their own weight

Posted on December 5, 2017 in Digital technologies, New materials, Spotlighted

« Researchers at Computer Science and Artificial  Intelligence Laboratory (MIT) and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have created origami-inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water pressure. »

A simple headband to protect against bike shocks

Posted on November 30, 2017 in New materials, Spotlighted

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3D printed clothes that can refresh you

Posted on November 21, 2017 in New materials, Spotlighted

Des chercheurs de l’université du Maryland ont mis au point un textile capable de réguler la température de son porteur.

Researchers develop earthquake resistant coating

Posted on November 20, 2017 in New materials, Spotlighted

Une équipe de chercheurs de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique (UCB) ont mis au point un béton résistant aux secousses de magnitude de 9 à 9,1.

Neuropixels, a new nerve-cell records activity of hundreds of neurons simultaneously

Posted on November 17, 2017 in New materials, Spotlighted