When it comes to soft-bodied robotic devices, there are ones that are squishy like rubber, or that fold like origami. The latter could soon be much lighter, hardier and capable, thanks to an ...

'Origami robots' are state-of-the-art soft and flexible robots that are being tested for use in various applications including drug delivery in human bodies, search and rescue missions in disaster ...

Researchers have discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals. This challenges long-standing assumptions about the limits of heat transport in metallic ...

Compared with general additive manufacturing (AM) methods, Multi-material additive manufacturing (MMAM) enables a higher level of design freedom, such as integrating materials, structure and function ...

Metallic hydrogen has been created in a diamond anvil in a Harvard lab. Diamond anvil cells can use only vanishingly small sample sizes. A typical amount is about 160 cubic micrometers If metallic ...

Aerospace company Boeing has released a film that demonstrates the properties of what it describes as "the lightest metal ever" (+ movie). Described by HRL as approximately one hundred times lighter ...

Based on years of development and resource advantages in Yunnan province, a high-tech industrial cluster of non-ferrous metal and precious metal new materials industries has been formed in the Kunming ...