North Carolina State University: ‘Metabots’ Shapeshift From Flat Sheets Into Hundreds of Structures. “Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material that can snap into hundreds of stable shapes – allowing them to execute a wide variety of actions despite the fact that they have no motor and are made of a single, flat material.”

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