{"id":43808,"date":"2011-12-23T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scientists-at-mit-and-harvard-have-invented\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:45:48","slug":"scientists-at-mit-and-harvard-have-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scientists-at-mit-and-harvard-have-invented\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-43808 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scientists-at-mit-and-harvard-have-invented\/attachment\/43809\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lwoeriVtFl1qescblo1_540-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Scientists at MIT and Harvard have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats.<br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s a far cry from previous programmable matter research we&rsquo;ve seen, which works at the nanoscale to create scaffolds and gears.<br \/>\nThe fiberglass sheets are about a half-millimeter thick and made of half-inch-wide triangular tiles. They can be made at a larger scale, enabling machines that can fold, Transformer-like, into any number of objects.<br \/>\nThough the goal is to make large objects, the folding involves some nano-scale circuits. MIT computer scientist Daniela Rus embedded shape-memory strips, made of a nickel-titanium alloy, that were about 100 microns thick &ndash; the width of a human hair. The sheets were also outfitted with stretchable copper-laminated plastic mesh, which served as wires. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-06\/mit-harvard-researchers-invent-self-folding-origami-sheets\">Video: &ldquo;Smart Sheets&rdquo; Can Self-Assemble Into Airplanes, Boats | Popular Science<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at MIT and Harvard have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats. It&rsquo;s a far cry from previous programmable matter research we&rsquo;ve seen, which works at the nanoscale to create scaffolds and gears. The fiberglass sheets are about a half-millimeter thick and made of half-inch-wide triangular tiles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-43808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-boA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43810,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43808\/revisions\/43810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}