Force – Use of strength or high energy that can change a material's shape. Malleable – A material that can be bent and shaped without breaking, like metal. Stretch – A material that can be ...

Formless 'slime' robots that shape-change to complete complex ... from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for example, or this liquid metal Lego man, capable of melting and re-forming itself ...

An Oregon State University researcher has helped create a new 3D printing approach for shape-changing materials that are likened ... So they can be used as implantable medical devices, for example, to ...

When Majidi and his colleagues used an alternating magnetic field – one whose shape changes predictably over time – electrons in the robot’s liquid metal ... this good at changing its ...

The metal microbot, made out of liquid metal ... including fast movement and heavy load bearing when it is in its solid state, and shape changing in its liquid state,” Chengfeng Pan, an engineer ...