A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal report a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami today in Nature. This simple, robust and low-cost approach has a wide ...
A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...
Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: ...
Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more predictably than standard parachutes.
Montreal researchers design a low-cost kirigami parachute that is cheap, stable, and scalable, for use in drones, airdrops, ...
A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal reported today in Nature a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami. This simple, robust and low-cost approach has a ...
If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, if the designer took inspiration from ...
Some parachutes feature openings or holes, which aid in stability and control. Without a means for some air to escape through the top of the canopy, wind could force the parachute to rock ...