When you need something quietly bending or moving, don’t underestimate SMA’s (or Shape Memory Alloys). The Living Glass project by architects [David Benjamin] and [Soo-in Yang] catalogs an experiment ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cambridge Mechatronics Limited (CML), world leaders in system level solutions for Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) applications, is pleased to announce CM401, CML’s own ...

Some metal alloys will "remember" a shape when you heat them to the same temperature they were originally shaped at. So a straight wire made from one of these "shape memory alloys" might change back ...

The basis of the nickel-titanium shape memory alloy (SMA) class is the intermetallic equiatomic binary alloy NiTi. Its moderate solubility range allows its composition to be changed, and also enables ...

Using Nitinol—a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wire—a line of solenoid replacements for commercial applications can be used as a low-mass, low-power, low-cost alternative to larger and more costly ...

Shape memory materials, also known as "metal muscles" or "artificial muscles," have the ability to snap back into their original shape after being stretched, squashed, bent, or otherwise deformed. If ...

Any robot that moves needs actuators—motors that move parts of the robot around. While robot actuators have been around since the dawn of machines, they have some issues. For one, it is very difficult ...