Harvard Material Shape Shifts Via Electric Current

Harvard researchers have developed flat sheets of composite material that can fold themselves into shapes after receiving an electric current. Similar to origami, the "Programmable Matter By Folding" contains 25 actuators, split into 5 groups and the shape is produced when they are activated in a sequence.

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