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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 34
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 34

by Mark Frauenfelder
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
6h 34m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 34

MAKING TROUBLE

Soft Robots

By Saul Griffith

Omnivorous Inventor

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Arwen Griffith

Traditional robotics is doing brilliantly right now. To try and beat these guys at their game is a losing proposition, especially for people who don’t have an extensive background in robotics. There are, however, wide-open fields in robotics.

The promise of the “soft” robotics work we’ve done to date is great. These robots are soft, compliant, and human-compatible. For wearable applications — prosthetics and exoskeletal (exodermis?) suits — and for human-safe “co-robotics” they have great applications. I’m just geeking out on the interesting design problems in this ...

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