Engineers describe the creation of a new class of mechanical metamaterials that delocalize deformations to prevent failure. They did so by turning to tensegrity, a century-old design principle in ...

Move over, Curiosity: there could soon be a new rover lifting off to explore the galaxy. An innovative “tensegrity rover” could solve some of the big problems about space exploration, making the rover ...

Tensegrity structures, characterised by the interplay of discontinuous compression elements and continuous tension elements, have emerged as a promising design paradigm in robotics. These ...

In context: Companies like Boston Dynamics have brought us two and four-legged robots. NASA has even been working on a "tensegrity" design called the "Super Ball Bot" that has no legs but moves by ...