Dr. Renheng Bo, Research Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Tsinghua University, and his ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...

In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices—ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent ...

a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the paper's senior author. These robots could be used in settings where electronics cannot function.

But to engineers at the University ... tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. The grippers would be a particularly good fit for agriculture applications, as their extremities are ...

Most people likely think of robots as complex ... of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. It was 3D-printed in one continuous 58-hour step, composed of a single piece of soft and flexible ...

Michael Tolley, Professor and Study Senior Author, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ... the repetitive motions of soft actuators to move the robots. By alternating between ...

A study from UMass Amherst shows that defective fillers in polymers improve heat dissipation by 160 %, offering new insights ...

The UMass Amherst-led team is challenging the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally ...

Polymers are embedded in every corner of our tech landscape, from high-speed microchips and LEDs to smartphones and soft ...