Using a new algorithmic model, the mathematicians examined what one can do using shapes that follow these new rules. Tiles ...

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Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

In an experiment that sounds about as safe as bobbing for fries, ESA carried out the first-ever 3D metal printing in space ...

Mathematicians have long studied how shapes can fit together to cover surfaces without gaps. However, their typical approach ...

Researchers created a sub-1mm robot using kirigami that transforms from a flat hexagon into 3D shapes and moves with an ...

Increasingly, pellets are being used in extrusion 3D printing. But why should you adopt them? What are the benefits? We took ...

Instant 3D-printed contact lenses are the future.  You’ll go for an eye exam, the optometrist will check your vision, press ...

Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal "metasheet" but, with ...