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article image Essential Sciences: Touchy-feely? Soft robotics advances – Digital Journal

For super-sensitive touch to advances in soft materials that curls under pressure or expands when stretched, such innovations in materials science are enabling…

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5 years ago

March 8, 2021

Noosa Online News Publisher

For super-sensitive touch to advances in soft materials that curls under pressure or expands when stretched, such innovations in materials science are enabling soft robotics to be advanced. This week we look at three advances in the field.
Soft robots can do things that humans, and more conventional robots, cannot do. One of the objectives behind soft robotics is to create machines that are adaptable and more animal-like in their capabilities. In the past year the developments in this area have…

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