Morphable machines: Shape-shifting robots possible with new phase-changing material

Scientists have developed a material that can switch between hard and soft states, which they say could enable the creation of low-cost, morphing robots. Developed as part of a research project with Boston Dynamics, the Google-owned robotics company, the material was built with wax and foam by researchers from MIT, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and Stony Brook University.

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