MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MA — This geothermal rescue was for a closed loop geothermal system that was seriously overheating during the cooling season. This system had ten vertical loops that served 11 heat ...
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Vine-inspired soft robot achieves gentle closed-loop lifting

It is not every day that a robot takes its cues from the quiet persistence of a climbing vine; still, that’s exactly where engineers at MIT and Stanford found inspiration for a breakthrough in soft ...