After a 40-year wait, technology enables three-sided zipper design
mooreds
11 points
2 comments
May 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
Imustaskforhelp
Holy f cking sh t, I have lost my marbles seeing this, The robot having zipper legs and then unzipping them and storing them at the top to essentially having flexible legs is THE most coolest and awesome technology I have seen this year, its so innovative I got goosebumps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWig98GVIno&t=164s Just Wow, the amount of possibilities with this alone feel quite unlimited to me but to me I imagine having a robot having both flexible hands and arms with this. This feels so amazing to me. Edit: The tent is amazing too, I am not sure how fast they are to deploy/not, I have only ever seen tent in someone's house once irl and it was a pain iirc for them to set it up and I have heard that setting up tents is a hard issue which takes time and this seems to solve it too. Quite amazing.
bustermellotron
Go go Gadget arms!