Manufacturing Minute: Soft Robots With Embedded Sensor Touch

Over the years, scientists have created soft robots that can handle delicate objects, crawl and swim, however these robots have always had a limited ability to react to the environment around them. Until now.

Rachelle Blair-Frasier
Mar 14, 2018
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