Can soft machines remember past events using their body, without any processor? 💭 Out now in Device (Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social), we harness bistable elastic shells to program and memorize locomotion behaviors upon interactions with the surroundings. 🎈🐙 🧪⚛️ www.doi.org/10.1016/j.de... (1/9)

This mechanism shrinks when pulled Watch our latest video in full on YouTube youtu.be/-QTkPfq7w1A

christoph: "yes" is a wholesome answer, occasionally 😄

Zooming in, we saw that the worm bends its body so much that it can form a kink at the bend! Kinks are usually detrimental in structures. For example, Kinked straws are useless. But this nematode can reversibly kink its body and keep jumping!

🌬️ 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘪 𝘥’𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢: 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. Our installation, Kirigami d’Aria, is on view as part of the biennial architecture exhibition Time Space Existence organized by the European Cultural Centre.

Buckling normally happens when you compress something slender, but 'tug' on a piece of crumpled paper at two points and it also buckles. Read more about how this "localized-TUG folding" occurs in many systems at: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423439122

July 5 - 6 is World Firefly Day! Like a lot of insects fireflies are threatened by our actions. 🧪🐡Check out fireflyersinternational.net to find out how you can help gather data on these magical animals & help scientists track their populations. My #linocut print shows 3 fireflies (Photinus pyralis,

And our wobbly robot is on Veritasium! 🤩 🎈 🎬 Interview with Veritasium: www.instagram.com/reel/DKKfd36... 📝 Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org 🧪 @veritasium.bsky.social ⚛️

🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great podcast about our latest article on Science (@science.org) by The Naked Scientists! 🧪⚛️ 🐙 🎧 Listen: www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/sho... 📝 Read the article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Autonomous locomotion simply with tubes as limbs, and no brain? 🎈🤖 Yes, through physical synchronization! Our article is out today in Science (@science.org) Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Authors: @albertocomoretto.bsky.social, H.A.H. Schomaker, J.T.B. Overvelde More below 🧪 ⚛️ (1/6)

Closing out my second talk at the RoboSoft workshops with this: take robot joy seriously! Examples include EMFcamp, Cat Royale, and sextech hack. Fantastic bunch of people doing cool things. Feels like my brain has had a good spring clean.

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Engineer and photographer Harold Edgerton was born #OTD in 1903. He pioneered various forms of high-speed photography using specialized cameras, strobe lighting, and other techniques. You’ve probably seen many of the images he created! 🧪 ⚛️ 📸 Images: MIT; H. Edgerton

My ode to Curiosity Driven Research www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b...

Nature research paper: Adaptive locomotion of active solids https://go.nature.com/41KlOVd

The first paper of my PhD is about a strange phenomenon peculiar to ketchup bottle valves 💧🥫 You may already have experienced that annoying sputtering when you squeeze ketchup out of the bottle. But not always, right? 🧪⚛️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey Bluesky, I heard u like viruses artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠

Excited to represent @amolf-nl.bsky.social at #APSSummit25 tomorrow. If you are in Anaheim, do check out my talk on ciliary walkers 🐙 summit.aps.org/events/MAR-B...

From a visit to the Renwick Gallery in DC a couple of weeks ago: a very cool art piece by Lauren Mabry showcasing coiling instabilities in viscous fluids. A beautiful intersection of art, fluid mechanics (and some rheology!). @sorheology.bsky.social @apsdsoft.bsky.social