Living Materials are the Future of Green Building

  Video description The coming decades present a host of challenges for our built environments. To become more livable, cities will need to become smarter, with buildings, bridges, and infrastructure that are no longer static but dynamic; able to adapt and respond to what’s going on around them. If not exactly alive, these structures will […]

Soft robotics controlled by programmable soft valves for digital and analog control

  Video description In a study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, robotics researchers, engineers, and materials scientists from Rice University and Harvard University showed it is possible to make programmable, nonelectronic circuits that control the actions of soft robots by processing information encoded in bursts of compressed air.