Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Morphing fabrics @mit | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a low-cost fiber, compatible with existing textile manufacturing techniques that contracts in response to an increase in temperature, then self-reverses when the temperature decreases, without any embedded sensors or other hard components. Sarah Nicita produced woven samples featured in this video.