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Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao developed flexible, magnetic, 3-D structures

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Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao developed flexible, magnetic, 3-D structures
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Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet and can crawl, roll, jump, and snap together. A potential application of the technology is to use the technique to fabricate magnetically controlled biomedical devices. The research was featured on the cover of the June issue of Nature. Read more on MIT News.