An object is something that you can touch. A material is what the object is made from. When we choose a material, we need to select the right one for the object it will finally become. For example ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming.

Students will develop an understanding that objects and materials have characteristics or properties. Students will be able to recognize similarities between the properties of certain objects and ...

This is the impressive moment a robotic hand grasps objects just like a human. Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Students test different materials to see if they float or sink and discover ... Students use Snap Cubes to see that the same parts can be rearranged to make many different objects, and that these ...

A metamaterial is a composite material that exhibits unique properties due to its structure, and now researchers have used one featuring a small sawtooth pattern on its surface to move and position ...

Make sure the material is not touching the table ... the electroscope reading after rubbing a charged object against a dryer sheet? How do different dryer sheet products compare?

Sound doesn’t just help us hear music or communicate underwater—it can also be used to move objects without physically ...

This happens when objects have opposite charges, positive and negative, which attract. (Objects with the same charges repel one another.) Could enough static electricity make a balloon stick to a ...