Soft Robots

Robots aren’t usually soft and squidgy. But inspired by the octopus, engineers are creating robots that can twist their way around problems that rigid robots can’t handle. Feature: The soft touch http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.10... OCTOPUS - http://www.octopusproject.eu/ STIFF-FLOP - http://www.stiff-flop.eu/ PoseiDRONE - http://sssa.marinerobotics.it/researc...