Squishy robots This Phase-changing material could allow for even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states. Phase-changing material built from wax and foam, is capable of switching between hard and soft states. Think of the T-1000 shape shifting robot from Terminator. This material was developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and Stony Brook University -- could be used to build deformable surgical robots. The say robots with this material could move through the body to reach a particular point without damaging any of the organs or vessels along the way. Robots built from the material, which is described in a new paper in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, could also be used in search-and-rescue operations to squeeze through rubble looking for survivors, Hosoi says. sciencedaily/releases/2014/07/140714122815.htm
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:34:36 +0000
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