The flowing, jamming, and avalanche behavior of granular materials is satisfyingly universal
and vexingly hard to tune: A granular flow is typically intermittent and will irremediably jam if …

Biological materials dynamically reconfigure their underlying structures in response to
stimuli, achieving adaptability and multifunctionality. Conversely, mechanical metamaterials …

Using a discrete element method, we investigate the phenomenon of geometric cohesion in
granular systems composed of star-shaped particles with 3 to 13 arms. This was done by …

Systems of randomly packed, macroscopic elements, from jammed spherical grains to
tangled long filaments, represent a broad class of disordered meta-materials with a wide …

The research presented in this paper describes a new strategy for deploying a cyber-
physical macro material combined with aerial construction robots as a reconfigurable …

In this paper, we present novel techniques and tools for mobile robotic in situ fabrication of
fibre reinforced granular structures outdoors. The research focuses on Jammed Architectural …

We describe a minimalistic robot mechanism that is capable of many construction behaviors
in dry granular material including locomotion, climbing, leveling, subtraction, addition …

Abstract The Soft Office project was developed in response to the rapidly changing context
of commercial architecture, where accommodating fluid programmatic requirements of …

In this study, we investigate the stability and solid fraction of columns comprised of highly
non-convex particles. These particles are constructed by extruding arms onto the faces of …

The flowing, jamming and avalanche behavior of granular materials is satisfyingly universal
and vexingly hard to tune: a granular flow is typically intermittent and will irremediably jam if …