EditorialAn elastic skin is stretched over a robotic hand, part of an effort to make robots as lifelike as possible, at a Disney Imagineering workshop in Glendale, Calif., on Jan. 23, 2020. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)
EditorialAn elastic skin is stretched over a robotic hand, part of an effort to make robots as lifelike as possible, at a Disney Imagineering workshop in Glendale, Calif., on Jan. 23, 2020. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)
EditorialRyoo Su Jung uses and elastic band to warm up before the Olympic archery tryouts in Wonju-si, South Korea, April 22, 2021. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialVladislava Bulatnikova staples elastic to face shields on an assembly line at Consortium, a company that has converted a loft in the meatpacking district into a factory for personal protective equipment, in New York on April 17, 2020. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)