4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week

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Spider eyes - jumping wise, kirigami graphene, design for the blind, and coming up for landing
Kirigami inspires new method for wearable sensors
https://mechanical.illinois.edu/news/kirigami-inspires-new-method-wearable-sensors
Keong Yong and Ezekiel Hsieh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Most complete exploration of fly landing maneuvers to advance future robots
https://news.psu.edu/story/593959/2019/10/23/research/most-complete-exploration-fly-landing-maneuvers-advance-future
The Pennsylvania State University
Colorado State University
National Centre for Biological Sciences in India
Stanford increasing access to 3D modeling through touch-based display
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/10/29/touchable-display-helps-blind-people-create/
Stanford University
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Compact depth sensor inspired by spiders
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/10/compact-depth-sensor-inspired-spiders
Harvard University
UC Berkeley
National University of Singapore
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This WeekBy National Science Foundation