Our future robot overlords never looked so squishy. “The octobot is a minimal system designed to demonstrate our integrated design and fabrication strategy,” the study authors wrote, “which may serve as a foundation for a new generation of completely soft, autonomous robots.” Traditionally, robots have been seen as stiff, angular entities, made of metal and other rigid materials. “Creating a …
'Octobot' is actually a new kind of a robot which is soft, and not hard. “It’s sort of a hybrid between octopus and robot,” said study author Jennifer Lewis, a Harvard professor of biologically inspired engineering. “We’ve done something that nobody’s been able to do.” Image Source : AP Octobot Soft robotics are important because “you’ve got these hard mechanical …
WASHINGTON — The latest revolutionary robot isn’t the metallic, costly machine you’d expect: It’s squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made for pennies by a 3-D printer. “It’s sort of a hybrid between octopus and robot,” said study author Jennifer Lewis, a Harvard professor of biologically inspired engineering. It can’t really even move along a table yet, so this …
