Toward Intelligent Metamaterial Machines

Katia Bertoldi explores flexible mechanical metamaterials whose geometry produces unusual responses, particularly under nonlinear deformation. These structures can change shape, control the flow of energy and exhibit programmable mechanical behaviour. The talk considers how sensing, mechanical computation and shape transformation can be incorporated into a single material architecture. Integrating these functions could produce machines whose capabilities arise from their structure and require little electronic control. Recent work illustrates progress toward unifying morphing, sensing and intelligence in synthetic material systems.