Patent 11382368 was granted and assigned to Cornell University Press on July, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An embodiment of a robotic fabric has a first fabric layer and an actuator that is configured to have a first state and a second state. A property of the first fabric layer is different when the actuator is in the first state as compared to the property of the first fabric layer when the actuator is in the second state.