vega cfairing

Vega-C fairing’s trial by sound

The 10-m high fairing of Europe’s inaugural Vega-C launcher atop a structural model of its upper stage, being prepared for acoustic testing within ESA’s Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) – which is able to simulate…

MIT Soft Dynamics

How to design and control robots with stretchy,…

By Rob Matheson Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is a huge computational problem, but a new model can help. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control…