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Users can select the strips\u2019 length and the direction and angle at which they\u2019ll bend. They can also choose whether the zipped-up device will appear straight, bent, coiled, or twisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A tent making use of the zipper takes just 80 seconds to set up. A wrist cast that incorporates it can be tightened and loosened as desired. A motor can even be added so that, for example, a robot\u2019s leg heights could change with the push of a button.<\/p>\n
\u201cA regular zipper is great for closing up flat objects, like a jacket, but Freeman ideated something more dynamic,\u201d says MIT postdoc Jiaji Li, a lead author on a paper presenting the project. \u201cWe\u2019ve developed a process that builds objects you can rapidly shift from flexible to rigid, and you can be confident they\u2019ll work in the real world.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Reinventing #zipper #MIT #Technology #Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Users can select the strips\u2019 length and the direction and angle at which they\u2019ll bend….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[780,10781,781,180,10782],"class_list":["post-14851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-mit","tag-reinventing","tag-review","tag-technology","tag-zipper"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper.png",1198,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper-300x150.png",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper-768x385.png",640,321,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper-1024x513.png",640,321,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper.png",1198,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper.png",1198,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper-1024x513.png",1024,513,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MIT-News-YZipper-540x340.png",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}