Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Manas Bhargava, Manas Bhargava, , , | Summary: Natural organisms use distributed actuation via their musculoskeletal systems to adapt their gait for traversing diverse terrains or to morph their bodies to perform varied tasks. A longstanding challenge in the field of robotics is to mimic this extensive […]

Kavli Affiliate: Harry A. Atwater | First 5 Authors: Matthew F. Campbell, Matthew F. Campbell, , , | Summary: Achieving laser-driven, reflective, relativistic light sails would represent a tremendous breakthrough for humankind, allowing us to advance our understanding of the solar system and deep space far beyond what we know from space probes, telescopes, and […]