The Faboratory at Yale University

The Yale Faboratory researches new and innovative ways to make things. The natural world is filled with soft, robust, and conformable mechanisms capable of stably and safely interacting with their environment. However, the machines and electronics that we build today are most often constructed from rigid components. In the Yale Faboratory, we build mechanisms and systems that exploit the properties of soft materials, such as extreme deformability and responsiveness to external stimuli.