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MIT makes move toward vehicles that morph - MIT News Office
Topic: Miscellaneous 11:31 pm EST, Mar 24, 2006

Picture a bird, effortlessly adjusting its wings to catch every current of air. Airplanes that could do the same would have many advantages over today's flying machines, including increased fuel efficiency.

Now MIT engineers report they may have found a way for structures -- and materials -- to move in this way, essentially morphing from one shape into another.

MIT makes move toward vehicles that morph - MIT News Office



 
 
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