Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a ...

SINCE its original publication about five years ago, this work has proved itself a very valuable introduction to the basic conceptions and principles of structural theory as related to trusses, rigid ...