A low-cost, simple robotic apple picker arm developed by Washington State University researchers may someday help with fruit ...

Space just got skinnier: an inflatable fabric airlock could become standard equipment on future space stations after breezing through its prototype testing in April. Space just got skinnier: an ...

“Air is pretty cheap,” says Skylar Tibbits, the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT’s International Design Center. He’s making a point about inflatables, which could be useful for ...

MIT and BMW are partnering to develop a 3D printed, inflatable, stretchy material that could change car design in the future. Currently, cars already use air in airbags and some seating. But because ...

Although the robotic arm is still slow when compared to human pickers who pick an apple every three seconds, the team is ...

In a press release Friday, BMW Design Department announced in collaboration with the MIT Self-Assembly Laboratory that the two have developed 3D-printable inflatables, with air sealed inside. BMW’s ...

BMW and MIT have announced that they have teamed up to create the first printed inflatable material. The breakthrough was created at the MIT Self-Assembly Laboratory and the material can ...

This month researchers at BMW and MIT’s self-assembly lab have unveiled new inflatable 3D printed materials which could be used in the production of vehicles in the near future. Named ‘liquid printed ...

There’s been something of a renaissance lately in inflatable architecture. In the past few years alone, this ephemeral typology has been at Collective Design Fair, Performa 17, and the Park Avenue ...