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 ...

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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 ...