There’s a new star out of Harvard University, and this one isn’t human: Instead, it’s a soft-bodied, squid-inspired pneumatic robot, which can perform a variety of slithering-like movements to get around and underneath obstacles, depending the order in which its four “arms” are inflated, according to a paper published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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