Taking inspiration from nature, researchers designed a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how jellyfish collect ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists in the Harvard John A.

"Knolling" is the art of arranging objects at right angles, and these two computational design projects bring algorithmic optimization to this creative process. "Object-Oriented (Shelf) Programming" ...