Mechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that propel foam ...

Compliant mechanisms utilise the intrinsic elasticity of materials to achieve precise motion through deformation rather than traditional rigid-body joints. This design paradigm is highly advantageous ...

Why this deformable antenna has advantages compared to a foldable origami antenna. How the team designed and fabricated this iris-patch antenna design using 3D printing. The performance they modeled ...

Reconfigurable antennas -- those that can tune properties like frequency or radiation beams in real time, from afar -- are integral to future communication network systems, like 6G. But many current ...

One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that should fit together actually do. While adding significant tolerance between parts is an option, often you want to have ...

“According to one aspect of the technology, a dynamic, compliant mechanism based mattress design is provided that can reduce the occurrence of bed sores in the existing immobile and aging population ...