Control Engineering

JANUARY 23, 2023

As those films heated up, they began to warp, forming a cone that rose up until, suddenly and explosively, it flipped inside out—shooting the material up to a height of nearly 200 times its own thickness in just 6 milliseconds. As the cone forms, strain builds up in the film until, all at once—snap!

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 23, 2023

MIT researchers used a form of generative AI, called a diffusion model, to solve this problem more efficiently. Some traditional methods tackle this problem sequentially, guessing a partial solution that meets one constraint at a time and then checking to see if any other constraints were violated.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 2, 2023

Made from a liquid-metal elastomer composite, the material’s key feature is its skin-like soft properties. “It Its integrated antibacterial and antiviral properties can also help prevent harmful pathogens from forming on the surface of the skin underneath the device during extended use.

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Control Engineering

MAY 4, 2023

Additive manufacturing, which involves the construction of a 3D object from a computer-aided design (CAD) model or a digital reconstruction, has gone through many evolutions over the past several years. Like other manufacturing industries, they continue evolving. It’s not enough to make the composite anymore or sell the printer.

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