Robot with Spaghetti-Like Tentacles Is Surprisingly Strong and Gentle

In the ongoing race to produce the most lifelike robots, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) present a new soft-grabbing robot complete with… tentacles. Photo Source: Harvard Microrobotics Lab/Harvard SEAS The work, published in PNAS, is very different from traditional robotic grippers that usually require complicated forward …