MIT engineers are developing “soft robots” with bodies made of silicone that is actuated by fluid flowing through veins in the material. They’ve just demonstrated a soft robotic fish.
“As robots penetrate the physical world and start interacting with people more and more, it’s much easier to make robots safe if their bodies are so wonderfully soft that there’s no danger if they whack you,” says Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
via Boing Boing
