Extendable Robot Arms and Exoskeletons Could Benefit from Super-Stretchy Wires | MIT Technology Review

by Adriana Hamacher

27 July 2015

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New kinds of flexible, bendable, and twistable electronic devices could benefit from conducting wires that can stretch to many times their length.

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Adriana Hamacher Associate Editor at Robohub and the UK's Knowledge Transfer Network and a contributor to Economist Insights

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