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(41,831 posts) Fri Aug 26, 2016, 06:39 AM Aug 2016

‘Octobot’ is the world’s first soft-bodied robot






ROBOTS & TECHNOLOGY
Soft octopus robot can squeeze into difficult places

The word "robot" usually means a metal humanoid like thing.

More recently, in movies like Ex Machina (2015) or Automata (2014) robots are starting to look and behave more like humans, with soft skin and voices tinged with emotion.

Now, in the latest robot development, some robots are getting extremely soft, squishy even.

WHAT IS A SOFT ROBOT?

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‘Octobot’ is the world’s first soft-bodied robot (Original Post) yuiyoshida Aug 2016 OP
I, for one, welcome our future robotic overlords. progressoid Aug 2016 #1
I, for one, also welcome our cephalopod mollusc robotic overlords yuiyoshida Aug 2016 #2
The Adult Store down on Main wants a gross of these as soon as possible. n/t jtuck004 Aug 2016 #3
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