Tag: Harvard Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering

  • Science & Tech

    The shape-shifting of things to come

    What would it take to transform a flat sheet into a human face? How would the sheet need to grow and shrink to form eyes that are concave, a nose that’s convex, and a chin that protrudes? How to encode and release complex curves in shape-shifting structures is at the center of research led by…

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