Share of Cost, Soft robot squirms over fire, ice, and withstands crushing force

Tuesday, Feb. 17th 2015 6:00 AM

Engineers have created a shape-changing “soft” robot that can tread over a variety of adverse environmental conditions including snow, puddles of water, flames, and the crushing force of being run over by an automobile.

The engineers from Cornell and Harvard Universities will detail the robot in an upcoming edition of the journal Soft Robotics.

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