A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego, University of Michigan, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Laboratory of Acoustics of Le Mans University has demonstrated a new way to remotely control how a material behaves—using sound. The findings could lead to the development of protective gear, robotic muscles or medical implants that adjust their stiffness on demand.
Sound waves could be used to remotely reprogram material stiffness, from implants to robotic muscles
