Flexible Robots

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BZROM
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Flexible Robots

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Gumby-like flexible robot crawls in tight spaces (w/ video)
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Post by hitchcockgreen »

Ha yeah I saw that earlier today.
Interesting, but robotic locomotion still looks clumsy and awkward.
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Here's George M. Whitesides' epiphany when only a youngster on moving objects with pneumatics :lol: :wink:
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I wonder if that really needed to be four minutes long.
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