Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

A team of researchers from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are turning to shape metal alloys (SMAs) to mitigate the damage that commonly occurs with ...

This experiment tests whether a shape memory alloy metal that “remembers” its shape can actually power an engine using only heat. Massive data breach sees millions of credit card details leaked Some ...

Foldable wings have played an obscure part in aviation since its earliest days when the Wright brothers used pulleys and levers to twist the trailing edges of wings. However, as planes got more ...

After journalist Neil King Jr.’s walk through York County, he wrote about a “memory boom” sounding within its 900-plus square miles. That thunder should be heard beyond its borders, he wrote in his ...

A study led by Tohoku University, Iwate University, The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), National Astronomical Observation of Japan, Tokyo City University, and Kyoto University developed a ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

A recent article published in Small Science introduces fully bioderived, four-dimensional (4D) printable shape memory polymers (SMPs) with linear tunability and remotely controlled actuation ...