MIT's stretchable sheet reconstructs its own 3D shape to within 0.4 centimetres

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MIT engineers have built a soft, stretchable sheet that works out its own 3D shape as it bends and twists, with an error the team puts at under 0.4 centimetres. "Existing designs, which are based on rigid sensors, have errors of around 1 to 2 centimeters," graduate student Qifan Yu says in MIT's…