Carnegie Mellon has the coolest lab names. These plush toys that are actually robots made on knitting machines, for examples, came out of CMU's Morphing Matter Lab and Dev Lab in the Human-Computer ...

NEW YORK: Scientists have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create robotic plush toys and other knitted objects, an approach that may be used to cost-effectively make soft robots ...

Thanks to 4D knitting, cuddly soft toys are getting a robotic upgrade. Lea Albaugh at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA and colleagues have used knitting machines to create moving children ...

A recently-surfaced 1980s brochure reveals that Nintendo nearly released a knitting add-on for the NES. Posted on the Facebook page of former Nintendo employee Howard Phillips, the brochure shows off ...

If you consider yourself a master of the yarn but have grown tired of knitting socks, sweaters, and scarves, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Textiles Lab are about to breath new life into ...