Some engineers want to ditch hard metals and plastics and instead build machines with soft, shape-shifting materials to make wearable sensors or robots that can deform to squeeze through tight spaces.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A patent has helped the exercise machine maker break into ...

Unlike rubber, this newly discovered material actually gets stronger the more you stretch it. Rubber is a great, flexible material with a myriad of different uses but, as we all know, there are only ...

A team of engineers at Argonne National Laboratory is exploring the use of flexible nanoribbons of single-crystalline semiconductor materials. This is a distinct change from the approach taken by ...

Expected usefulness of the IBM 7030 Stretch computer for business data processing was described at the 16th National Meeting of the Association for Computing ...

The company that developed Spot the robot dog has now unveiled Stretch, a new robot that can work alongside humans to speed up warehouse operations. While a lot of talk about automation in the future ...

The Multi FleX1 Electric stretch hooders features an electrically operated stretch frame and the machine frame movement is electrical as well. Its overall smaller footprint, due to reduced safety-area ...