A team of researchers from Yale have created a robotic fabric.
A team of researchers from Yale have created a robotic fabric. (UK,DE)A team of researchers from Yale have created a robotic fabric.The team have developed the special fabric, which could be used for the likes of assistive clothing, self-deploying tents and even robotic parachutes.Trevor Buckner, a graduate student in Kramer-Bottiglio’s lab and lead author on the paper, said: "Our Field’s metal-epoxy composite can become as flexible as latex rubber or as stiff as hard acrylic, over 1,000 times more rigid, just by heating it up or cooling it down."Long fibres of this material can be sewn onto a...