A new 3D printing method that enables materials to bend, twist, expand or contract on demand inspires ‘artificial muscles’. Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing ...

Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree. Harvard scientists ...

Nature's most dexterous structures are often thin, flexible, and deceptively simple. A plant tendril coils around a support. An elephant trunk can curl, twist, and lift with extraordinary control.

A spinning 3D printer nozzle creates soft robots with built-in air channels that bend in programmed directions, turning flat printed structures into grippers and shape-shifting devices. (Nanowerk ...

Printheads are the cornerstone of material extrusion 3D printing systems, now capable of processing virtually any material — organic or inorganic. Multimaterial capabilities have further expanded ...

That's why scientists have devised a method of 3D-printing wireless sensors right into the things. Named MechSense, the system was developed at MIT by a team led by mechanical engineering graduate ...

Students at ETH Zurich have developed a laser power bed fusion machine that follows a circular tool path to print round components, thereby being able to process multiple metals at once. The system ...

(Nanowerk News) Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.