An insanely strong new nanomaterial could replace steel and Kevlar in surface coatings. The material, created by researchers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich, is nano architected which means it is a “precisely patterned nanoscale structure” that looks like a little net.
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Now Funding: Cellulose
With board games, there are many popular types of game mechanics. One of the most popular – at least when combined – is resource management and worker placement. You’ve got to make choices of where to deploy your workers to get the stuff you need to build better and better things. Want to do that in a literal biological scenario? Then check out Cellulose.
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Edible robots are coming soon
While you probably never thought it would be a good idea to eat a robot, some researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria believe that robots with edible parts could lead the way towards body-save systems that can deliver medicine and perform more natural robotic movements.
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