3D-Druck Modelle, 3D-Druck News MIT Researchers 3D Print Shape Shifting Materials, Could Lead to New Types of Robots
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, with the help of 3D printing, have developed a material that can switch between hard and soft. The material is described in a paper in the “Macromolecular Materials and Engineering” journal. It was developed by a team led by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and is made of wax and foam.
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Squishy Robots
A new phase-changing material built from wax and foam developed by researchers at MIT is capable of switching between hard and soft states. Learn more: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/squishy-robots-0714.
Robots built from this material would be able to operate more like biological systems with applications ranging from difficult search and rescue operations, squeezing through rubble looking for survivors, to deformable surgical robots that could move through the body to reach a particular point without damaging any of the organs or vessels along the way.
(Quelle: Youtube / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
