Researchers at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have built a new class of knitted textiles that behave like mechanical switches and sensors, with no rigid components involved. Standard industrial weft knitting was used to create dense fabrics that snap between multiple stable 3D shapes, turning ordinary textiles into mechanical metamaterials. […]
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