A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...
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 team of researchers in France and Canada might have just improved upon humble parachutes by making lots of holes in them.
Researchers are using Kirigami technology to give a parachute different properties. The initial approaches are very promising ...
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 ...
Polytechnique Montréal’s kirigami parachute offers low-cost, stable delivery for aid, drones, and Mars missions.
A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal reported today in Nature a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the ...
WASHINGTON — It took only a few hours for internet sleuths to crack the code hidden in the parachute that helped bring NASA's Perseverance rover to the surface of Mars. On Monday, the space agency ...