After a 40-year wait, technology enables three-sided zipper design

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44 points·mooreds··4 comments

Holy fcking sht, 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.

Love this reaction.

Even if these are contrived examples this is one of those things that could become completely ubiquitous as a cheap solution to problems that only seem obvious in hindsight.

Either that or we'll never see this tech again, it feels like there's no middle ground. I wonder how the cost scales up for mass production

I could see this being used for cable management.

Go go Gadget arms!

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