Meet FibeRobo: A Shape-Shifting Fiber That Can Produce Morphing Fabrics

Watch this video to learn more about FibeRobo, a low-cost fiber fully compatible with textile manufacturing techniques and can be produced continuously by the kilometer.

“We use textiles for everything. We make planes with fiber-reinforced composites, we cover the International Space Station with a radiation-shielding fabric, we use them for personal expression and performance wear. So much of our environment is adaptive and responsive, but the one thing that needs to be the most adaptive and responsive — textiles — is completely inert,” says Jack Forman , a graduate student in the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab, with a secondary affiliation at the Center for Bits and Atoms, and lead author of a paper on the actuating fiber.