So we will drop it from a drone because it's big, normally I will throw it myself, but it might not have time to open, so dropping it from a drone will elevate it enough to make a good parachute drop.
A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful, 19th-century textile designer William Morris once said. Now, a team of engineers at Polytechnique Montréal have demonstrated the inverse of Morris’s famous ...
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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 ...
Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: making parachutes more accurate by cutting them. Inspired by kirigami (the ...
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 ...
A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal reported today in Nature a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami. This simple, robust and low-cost approach has a ...
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Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more predictably than standard parachutes.