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"A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings 'a kind of intelligence' to the field of soft rob
by docmechanic 4y ago
"A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings 'a kind of intelligence' to the field of soft robotics."
- Someone 4y agoThe video (via the https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/12/14/soft-gel-robot/ https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/12/14/soft-gel-robot/ link on that page) shows a 5cm long object moving, estimating, a cm in 15 hours. I think that makes the claim they foresee “a range of practical future applications, including moving on surfaces through the human body to deliver targeted medicines” a bit premature. To do that, it would have to be much smaller and, probably, faster.