Watch how this robot can tell when an object is close. It’s all thanks to a smart foam material developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore. It can sense proximity, pressure, and ...

As any coach or sports medicine expert will tell you, when an athlete receives a blow to the head, their saying that they feel OK doesn't mean that they don't have a concussion. Particularly in sports ...

Concussions in college and professional football are under the microscope more than ever these days, but they don’t seem to be slowing down in frequency. Nearly every game produces an incident where a ...

SINGAPORE, July 6 – Singapore researchers have developed a smart foam material that allows robots to sense nearby objects and repairs itself when damaged, just like human skin. Artificially innervated ...

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Materials maker Rogers Corp. is working with foam maker XOnano Smartfoam to make smart foam products based on Roger's Poron-brand polyurethane foam. Foams made by XOnano of Orem, Utah, can to sense ...

Sometimes we dream. We dream of a world with no more flat-pack furniture, no more obtuse construction manuals and no more missing screws. Smart foam tech might get us closer to those admittedly ...

Concussions in college and professional football are under the microscope more than ever these days, but they don't seem to be slowing down in frequency. Nearly every game produces an incident where a ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore researchers have developed a smart foam material that allows robots to sense nearby objects, and repairs itself when damaged, just like human skin. Artificially ...