Dr Shiva Khoshtinat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta' at Politecnico di Milano. With an interdisciplinary background ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

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A long standing mystery in spintronics has revolved around why some promising crystalline materials stubbornly refuse to ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

Abstract: Taking human-robot collaborative assembly as an example, the methods based on contact forces can improve the assembly efficiency of industrial robots with large components in industrial ...

Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh ...

Abstract: The ability to effectively grasp and hold objects with different shapes is enabled by the hand’s capacity to preshape its fingers and adapt them to the object’s shape (i.e. preshaping and ...